

Baddegama
6.6(7)19802h 10m2
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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- Sinhalese
- sri lanka
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CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A11 Sept 1982
FranceFR
- Theatrical1216 May 1981
Sri LankaLK
- Theatrical1 Jan 1980
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Baddegama was released on 1 January 1980.
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