Lester James Peries
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Lester James Peries
Joe Abeywickrama, Ajith Jinadasa
Madol Duwa (Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Upasena Marasinghe. The film stars Ajith Jinadasa as Upali, a young rebellious youth who travels to a small island to get away from the restrictive society around him. The film is based on Martin Wickremasinghe's 1947 novel Madol Doova. It was a commercial success
Mangrove Island
Golu hadawatha
Lester James Peries
Dhammi is a mischievous schoolgirl, Sugath a shy and introverted boy new in school. Dhammi is immediately attracted to him and they become friends. The friendship eventually develops in to a special relationship, but when Sugath reveals his love for her she shuns him.
Silence of the Heart
Nidhanaya
Lester James Peries
Gamini Fonseka, Malini Fonseka
Based on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as "The Revenge," the film revolves around a murder committed for the purpose of gaining access to a hidden treasure.
The Treasure
Celluloid Man
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
P. K. Nair, Krzysztof Zanussi
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
Celluloid Man
Ahasin Polowata
Lester James Peries
Tony Ranasinghe, Sriyani Amarasena
Dr. Sarath (Tony Ranasinghe) domineers over his timid wife Vineetha (Sriyani Amarasena). When she is to have a Caesarean delivery of their baby, Sarath refuses to be present even though he himself is a doctor. She dies during surgery and Sarath is forced to live with the spectre of his wife hanging over him.
White Flowers for the Dead
අවරගිර
Lester James Peries
Joe Abeywickrama, Tony Ranasinghe
Awaragira is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films. It stars Joe Abeywickrama, Iranganie Serasinghe and Tony Ranasinghe in lead roles along with Lucky Dias and Vasanthi Chathurani. Music composed by Premasiri Khemadasa.
Awaragira
Kaliyugaya
Lester James Peries
This is the sequel to Sri Lankan director Lester James Peries' Changes in the Village made in 1964, about a young couple who grew to love each other after entering into an arranged marriage. In Kaliyugaya the young couple have aged, their children are scattered, and their past is recalled in flashbacks from the former movie. Since the kali yuga is the worst of four Hindu time periods and we are in it now, the title implies that suffering is bound to arise in the 83-minutes of the movie. Although unhappiness is not a principal theme, the mother (Punya Hendenlya) does grapple with her feelings when she gets a letter from her son in London that accuses her and her husband (Henry Jayasena) of serious faults -- and she starts to go back over the past, recalling incidents that might help her to understand why her son has turned against them.
Kaliyugaya
රේඛාව
Lester James Peries
Somapala Dharmapriya, Myrtle Fernando
A sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy and his friend--a blind girl who he accidentally 'heals' by giving her sight. Though the girl believes the boy healed her, in reality the boy has no such powers. The father of the boy fools the village folk into believing he's a healer, but ultimately the sham is exposed, causing the village to revolt against the boy and his family.
The Line of Destiny
බද්දේගම
Lester James Peries
Joe Abeywickrama, Malini Fonseka
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.
Village in the Jungle
ගම්පෙරලිය
Lester James Peries
Punya Hiendeniya, Henry Jayasena
Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.
Changes in the Village
Sandesaya
Lester James Peries
Ananda Jayarathna, kanthi gunathunga
Sandesaya (Sinhalese language word meaning The Message) is a 1960 film. The film based on the war between the Sinhalese people and the Portuguese invaders in Sri Lanka. It was directed by Sri Lankan film director Lester James Peries. It was produced by K. Gunaratnam on behalf of the Cinemas Company on the request of Raj Kapoor.
Sandesaya
Wekanda Walauwa
Lester James Peries
Malini Fonseka, Vasanthi Chathurani
Very loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Lester James Peries's MANSION BY THE LAKE follows a family of formerly wealthy, expatriate Sri Lankan landowners, now impoverished, as they return from England to the magnificent country estate they left behind.
Mansion by the Lake
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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
P. K. Nair, Krzysztof Zanussi
Сантьяго и София выросли вместе в маленьком рыбацком городке Соплавиенто. Они любят друг друга и собираются пожениться, но их мечты рушатся в день свадьбы. Сантьяго обвинен в тяжелом преступлении и вынужден бежать. Он не успевает объясниться с невестой, которая ожидает его перед алтарем. Узнав, что произошло, София ни на миг не сомневается в невиновности своего любимого и дает обещание, что разыщет своего возлюбленного, и они снова будут вместе. Но Сантьяго в своей новой жизни забывает про прежнюю любовь.
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