Joe Abeywickrama
Silindu
Village in the Jungle (1980)
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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.
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Malini Fonseka
Punchi Menika
Vijaya Kumaratunga
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Arthur C. Clarke
Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena
Village Headsman
Tony Ranasinghe
Fernando
Nadika Gunasekera
Hinnihamy
David Dharmakithri
Mudalithana
Trelicia Gunawardena
Silindu's Sister
D.R. Nanayakkara
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Asoka Peiris
Mr. Perera
Vincent Vaas
Priest
Wijerathna Warakagoda
Nawanandana Wijesinghe
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