Village in The Jungle
– Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by ..
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.
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Language:
Sinhalese, English
Director:
Lester James Peries
Writer:
A.J. Gunawarda, Lester James Peries, Leonard Woolf (book)
Main Actors:
Joe Abeywickrama, Arthur C. Clarke, David Dharmakirthi, Malini Fonseka
Plot:
The lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself.
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