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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Vijaya Kumaratunga as Babun
Malini Fonseka as Punchi Menika
Joe Abeywickrama as Silindu
Arthur C. Clarke as Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena as Village Headsman
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