Solomon & Gaenor

Solomon & Gaenor

Directed by	Paul Morrison
Produced by	Sheryl Crown
Written by	Paul Morrison
Starring	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
Release dates	30 April 1999 (1999-04-30)
Running time	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.

Plot

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.

Cast

Ioan Gruffudd as Solomon Levinsky
Nia Roberts as Gaenor Rees
Elliot Cantor as Benjamin Levinsky
Sue Jones-Davies as Gwen
William Thomas as Idris Rees
Mark Lewis Jones as Crad Rees
Maureen Lipman as Rezl
David Horovitch as Isaac
Aled Phillips as Beautiful Boy in Church

Awards

Academy Awards 2000
- Best Foreign Language Film - Nominated
Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film
- Best Film (Paul Morrison) - Nominated
Emden International Film Festival
- Emden Film Award (Paul Morrison) - 2nd Place
Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival
- Golden Dolphin (Paul Morrison) - WON
Verona Love Screens Film Festival
- Best Film (Paul Morrison) - WON

External links

Solomon & Gaenor at the Internet Movie Database

Festroia International Film Festival Best Film

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