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Baddegama

Baddegama

6.61980Drama

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.

Release1980-01-01
Runtime130 min
StatusReleased
CountriesSri Lanka
Original languageSI
SpokenSinhalese
DirectorLester James Peries
WritersLeonard Woolf, Lester James Peries, A.J. Gunawarda
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Popularity2
TMDB ID218838

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