Baddegama

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.

Country:

Sri Lanka

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

130 minutes

Year:

1980

Director:

Lester James Peries

Cast:

Babun

Punchi Menika

Silindu

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Village Headsman

Crew:

Novel

Writer

Writer

Director

Director of Photography