Beddegama (film)

Beddegama
Directed by	Lester James Peries
Written by	A.J. Gunawarda Lester James Peries
Story by	Leonard Woolf
Starring	Malini Fonseka Joe Abeywickrama Vijaya Kumaratunga
Cinematography	Willie Blake Donald Karunaratna
Edited by	Gladwin Fernando
Music by	Nimal Mendis
Release date	1980 (1980) (Sri Lanka)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Sri Lanka
Language	Sinhala

Beddegama Adaraneeya Kathawak ([The Village in the Jungle] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a 1980 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 The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. Sir Arthur C. Clarke also has a minor role in the film as an English Judge.

Plot

The lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama (literally, "The village in the jungle") as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself. The head of the family is a hunter named Silindu, who has two daughters named Punchi Menika and Hinnihami. After being manipulated by the village authorities and a debt collector, Silindu is put on trial for murder

Cast

• Malini Fonseka as Punchi Menika
• Joe Abeywickrama as Silindu
• Vijaya Kumaratunga as Babun
• Tony Ranasinghe as Arachchi
• Nadika Gunasekera as Hinnihami
• D. R. Nanayakkara as Exorcist
• Henry Jayasena
• Arthur C. Clarke as Leonard Woolf
• Trelicia Gunawardena as Trilicia Abeykoon

See also

• List of Sri Lankan films

External links

• Beddegama at IMDb
• National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka - Official Website
• Sri Lankan Lagest Sinhala Films Online - Online Watch
• Official website of Lester James Peries in association with Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Sri Lanka
• San Francisco International Film Festival