Village in the Jungle (1980)

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.

Released: Jan 01, 1980

Runtime: 130 minutes

Genre: Drama

Stars: Joe Abeywickrama, Malini Fonseka, Nadika Gunasekera, David Dharmakithri, Trelicia Gunawardena, Henry Jayasena

Crew: Leonard Woolf (Novel), Lester James Peries (Writer), Lester James Peries (Director), A.J. Gunawarda (Writer), Willie Blake (Director of Photography)