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Changes in the Village is a Sri Lankais film of genre Drama directed by Lester James Peries with Henry Jayasena

Changes in the Village (1965)

Gamperaliya

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Length 1h45
OriginSri Lanka
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3689053.3689053.3689053.3689053.368905

Gamperaliya is a 1963 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries; it was adapted from the novel Gamperaliya by Martin Wickramasinghe. The film was groundbreaking in Sinhala cinema shot entirely outside of a studio using one lamp and hand held lights for lighting. The movie exemplifies Peries's use of family tensions to symbolize wider issues.

The film was internationally acclaimed, receiving the Golden Peacock at the Grand Prix International Film Festival in India and the Golden Head of Palenque in Mexico. The film won the Best Director and Best Film awards at the 1965 Sarasaviya Film Festival. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. It was shown in Cannes Film festival in May 2008 under the French title "Changement au village." Subsequently it went out on general release in French cinemas.

Synopsis

Piyal (Henry Jayasena) is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda (Punya Heendeniya), 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 (Gamini Fonseka), 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.

Actors

Henry Jayasena

(Pryal Weliweli)
Gamini Fonseka

(Jinadasa)
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