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Synopsis (Country : Srilanka/Japan)
Death on a Full Moon Day74 mins, 1997
For 13 years in northern Sri Lanka, the Tamils have been at war with the government for an independent state. The blind Wannihami lives in a village with his daughter, Sunanda, while his son, Bandara, is away fighting as a government soldier. Sunanda’s boyfriend, Some, considers leaving the village to become a soldier so that he can enough money to get married. Then one day, Bandara arrives home in a coffin. The government informs Wannihami that it will pay Rs 10, 000 as compensation for his son’s death, money that is sorely needed by the impoverished family. But Wannihami refuses to accept the money…
Credits:-
Directed by Prasanna VithanageCast:
Joe Abeywickrama, Nayana Hettiarachchi, Priyanka SamarawereraPrasanna Vithanage started doing theatre after he finished school and in 1992 directed his first feature film, Silsila Gini Gini, which won a large number of national awards. His second feature, Dark Night of the Soul, received a Special Mention by the Jury at the Pusan International Film Festival. Walls Within, his last film before Death on a Full Moon Day, was well received at home and abroad.
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