Mansion by the Lake

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.

• Lester James PeriesDirector
• Lester James PeriesWriter

• Malini FonsekaSujata Rajasuriya, the widow
• Vasanthi ChathuraniSita, the adopted girl
• Sanath GunathilakeGunapala, the brother
• Paboda SandeepaniAruni, the teenager
• Ravindra RandeniyaLucas, the upstart
• Iranganie SerasingheAunt Catherine
• Asoka RodrigoInspector Alwis
• Nuwangi LiyanageThe servant
• Ranjit RubasingheThe activist student
• Elson DivituragamaValet in mansion
• Lucky DiasThe lawyer
• Dayananda JayawardenaThe mansion's caretaker