| 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 |
| Editing by | Kant Pan |
| Distributed by | APT Films |
| Release date(s) | 30 April 1999 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| 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 again in Welsh.
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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 Jew-hating anti-Semitic brother (Mark Lewis Jones). The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When an anti-Jewish pogrom breaks out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.