Solomon and Gaenor
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| Directed by | Paul Morrison |
| Produced by | Sheryl Crown |
| Written by | Paul Morrison |
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Ioan Gruffudd Nia Roberts Sue Jones-Davies William Thomas Mark Lewis Jones Maureen Lipman David Horovitch |
| Music by | Ilona Sekacz |
| Cinematography | Nina Kellgren |
| Edited by | Kant Pan |
| Distributed by | APT Films |
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105 min. |
| Country | Wales |
| Language |
Welsh Yiddish English |
| Box office | $165,485 |
Solomon & Gaenor (Welsh: Solomon a Gaenor) is a BAFTA Awarded and Academy nominated Welsh film released in 1999 and directed by Paul Morrison. It was filmed twice, once with principal dialogue in English and once with it in Welsh.
A young Orthodox Jew (Ioan Gruffudd) in 1911 South Wales tries to make his living by peddling fabrics door to door in the South Wales Valleys, but to do so he decides he must hide his ethnicity. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young Gentile woman (Nia Roberts) with a strong-willed father (William Thomas) and a violently anti-Semitic brother (Mark Lewis Jones). The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn he is Jewish. Shortly afterwards, the couple become caught up in anti-Jewish disturbances; they are forced to flee and become separated.
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