Movie details

Baddegama(1980)

Name: Baddegama
Genre: Drama
Released: 1980-01-01
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Joe Abeywickrama, Malini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Jayasena

Drama

Status: Released
Release date: 1980-01-01
Runtime: 2h 10m
Rating: 6.0 / 10 (6 votes)
Original language: si
Certification: -
Budget: -
Revenue: -
Popularity: 4
Adult content: No

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Overview

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.