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Beddegama (The Village in the Jungle) is a 1980 Sinhala drama film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. [1] [2] 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. [3]
The novel describes the lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddegama (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 farmer named Silindu, who has two daughters ...
For his role in the film Sadol Kandulu, he later won the Sarasaviya Award for the Best Actor. [18] He won forty awards including both international and local film festivals. [5] In the film Beddegama directed by Lester James Peries, he played a critically acclaimed role as "Silindu". In 1982, the character gave him another Sarasviya Award as ...
Beddegama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Southern Province. See also. List of towns in Southern Province, Sri Lanka; External links. ...
Back Roads (1981 film) Bad Blood (1981 film) Le bahut va craquer; Bala Nagamma (1981 film) Bara Aadmi; Barsaat Ki Ek Raat; Baseraa; The Battle for the Republic of China; Be My Husband; Be-Shaque; Beau Pere; Beddegama (film) Being Different (film) Beneath the Skin (film) The Best Little Girl in the World; Betrayal (1981 film) Beware of ...
Aarohanam (1980 film) Aasha (1980 film) Aatagadu; Aayiram Vaasal Idhayam; Ab Ayega Mazaa; Abdullah (film) AC/DC: Let There Be Rock; Act of Love (1980 film) Action (1980 film) Adhikaram; Adrien's Story; Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves (film) Adventures of Captain Wrongel; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (film)
Trelicia Abeykoon (born 14 October 1934 – died 26 April 1999 as ට්රිලිෂියා ගුණවර්ධන)), popularly as Trelicia or Trilicia Gunawardena, was an actress in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television as well as a singer. [1]
From the time he was a young film maker one of his only requests was that the government make way for a proper film archive that would help protect the heritage of the films produced by Sri Lanka. On 5 April 2014, his own milestone 95th birthday, his request was granted when the National film corporation ceremoniously opened the "Lester James ...