Sulanga enu pinisa

original title:
Sulanga enu pinisa
other titles:
(Trügerische Stille), The Forsaken Land, La Terre abandonnée
country / year of production:
Sri Lanka / 2004
original length:
108 min. , color
premiere:
F: 14 May 2005, Cannes Film Festival
genre:
docu dram
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director:
Vimukthi Jayasundara
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cast (role):
Mahnda Perera , Kaushalya Fernando , Nilupili Jayawardena
more:
Mahnda Perera , Kaushalya Fernando
plot synopsis:
Sri Lanka after the armistice: The movie shows one of the loniest areas of Sri Lanka. The mood is strange and everywhere is uncertainty. A couple lives in a lonely house, the husband carrys everyday his gun with him, because he doesn’t feel save at all: The soldiers he’d fighted before are still around. The people in the area doesn’t have any hope, their life contains only sorrow.
keywords:
civilians , escape , guerilla warfare , island
war:
Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
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remarks:
Won the "Golden Camera" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
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