---
title: 'Baddegama (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Lester James Peries'
released: '1980-01-01'
countries:
  - 'Sri Lanka'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/baddegama-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080409/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Baddegama (1980)

1980 · Sri Lanka

Original title: බැද්දේගම

## Synopsis

Beddegama is a 1981 Sinhala drama 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Lester James Peries](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-james-peries)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Nimal Mendis](https://cinepixo.com/people/nimal-mendis)

## Cast

- [Joe Abeywickrama](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-abeywickrama)
- [Malini Fonseka](https://cinepixo.com/people/malini-fonseka)
- [Vijaya Kumaranatunga](https://cinepixo.com/people/vijaya-kumaranatunga)

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