Sumitra Peries
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Kala Keerthi Sumitra Peries (born 24 March 1934) is a Sri Lankan female filmmaker and is known as the "Poetess of Sinhala Cinema." She also held the post of Sri Lanka's ambassador to France, Spain, and the United Nations in the late 1990s. Her films include Gehenu Lamai, Ganga Addara and Yahaluvo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sumitra Peries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vaishnavee (The Goddess), (Sinhalese: වෛෂ්ණාවී) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by veteran director Sumitra Peries and produced by Mano Nanayakkara. 1930’s, Sri Lanka. Partly a compelling domestic drama, and a demonic love story, the narrative follows a puppet-maker who’s set to be married to a young girl. Unfortunately, the girl elopes with her secret lover. Devastated, the grieving puppet-maker ends up carving a puppet in her likeness, which eventually comes to life, setting in motion a fantastical chain of events.
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Yahaluvo (Friends) (යහළුවෝ), also known as Yahaluwo, is a 2007 Sinhala romantic drama film. It was directed by Sumitra Peries, produced by Namal Senasinghe, the brother of Sujeewa Senasinghe, and scored by Navaratne Gamage. The film stars Sujeewa Senasinghe and Pooja Umashankar in lead roles along with Iranganie Serasinghe, Tony Ranasinghe, Kamal Addararachchi, and Anarkali Akarsha in supportive roles. It is the 1097th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
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The calm, dull marriage of a young woman and her much older husband is disturbed when the man's younger brother arrives at their home.
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"Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values.
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The Girls is about the growing up of two schoolgirl sisters and the disappointments to which they are condemned by their impoverished backgrounds.
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The Girls is about the growing up of two schoolgirl sisters and the disappointments to which they are condemned by their impoverished backgrounds.
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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.
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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
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Пиял - красивый молодой учитель, который нанят для обучения английскому языку Нанде, члену семьи высокого класса. Они влюбляются, но не могут сбежать, потому что Пиаль имеет более низкий класс. Родители Нанды вместо этого вталкивают ее в брак с Джинадасой, который является тем же классом, что и они. С экономическим спадом в Шри-Ланке обе семьи теряют свой статус, и Цзинандаса уходит, чтобы попытаться улучшить жизнь для себя; он никогда не достигает своей цели и умирает без гроша. Теперь Пиаль и Нанда могут собраться вместе. Однако они изменились, и прежний идиллический характер их отношений не был вновь захвачен.
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England educated Dr. Sarath Pathirana (Vijaya Kumaratunga), who is willing to try out new methods to treat his patients, is directed towards a special patient by the Head Doctor (Henry Jayasena) at the mental hospital. This patient is a beautiful girl named Nirmala…
