Film

Baddegama (1980)

• 1. Januar 1980
• 2 Std. 10 Min.

• Drama

Übersicht

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.

Regisseur

Lester James Peries

Drehbuchautoren

Leonard Woolf, A.J. Gunawarda, Lester James Peries

Besetzung

Vijaya Kumaratunga, මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා, Joe Abeywickrama