Village in the Jungle

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.

Cast

Joe Abeywickrama

Silindu

Malini Fonseka

Punchi Menika

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Babun

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

Exorcist