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Village in the Jungle (1980)

★ 5.8/10 130 min Drama Sri Lanka SI
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Description

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.

Top Cast

Joe Abeywickrama
Joe Abeywickrama Silindu
Malini Fonseka
Malini Fonseka Punchi Menika
Vijaya Kumaratunga
Vijaya Kumaratunga Babun
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena
Henry Jayasena Village Headsman
Tony Ranasinghe
Tony Ranasinghe Fernando
Nadika Gunasekera Hinnihamy
David Dharmakithri Mudalithana

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