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Baddegama

1980 · 130 min

A patient, somber immersion in hardship, where poverty and colonial indifference press down slowly and the jungle itself feels like a quiet adversary.

Genres
Drama
Overview
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.
How it feels
Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Survival, class, power, isolation
Content
Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness7
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight8

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Lester James Peries
    Written by
    A.J. Gunawarda, Lester James Peries
    Starring
    Vijaya Kumaratunga, Malini Fonseka, Joe Abeywickrama, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Jayasena, Tony Ranasinghe, David Dharmakithri, Trelicia Gunawardena
    Cinematography
    Willie Blake
    Runtime
    130 min
    Country
    Sri Lanka
    Languages
    Sinhalese

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