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Solomon & Gaenor is a British film of genre Drama directed by Paul Morrison released in USA on 25 august 2000 with Ioan Gruffudd
Solomon & Gaenor (1999)
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Add to a movie listSolomon & 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.
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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 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.Actors
Ioan Gruffudd
(Solomon Levinsky)
Nia Roberts
(Gaenor Rees)
William Thomas
(Idris Rees)
Mark Lewis Jones
(Crad Rees)
Maureen Lipman
(Rezl)
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