Solomon & Gaenor is a BAFTA Awarded and Academy nominated

Academy Awards

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 Welsh film released in 1999 and directed by Paul Morrison

Paul Morrison (director)

Paul Morrison is a British film director and screenwriter. He has mainly directed documentaries and drama films. His movie Solomon and Gaenor was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

. It was filmed twice, once with principal dialogue in English and again in Welsh.

Plot

A young Orthodox Jew (Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...

) in 1911 South Wales

South Wales

South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...

 tries to make his living by peddling fabrics door to door in the South Wales Valleys

South Wales Valleys

The South Wales Valleys are a number of industrialised valleys in South Wales, stretching from eastern Carmarthenshire in the west to western Monmouthshire in the east and from the Heads of the Valleys in the north to the lower-lying, pastoral country of the Vale of Glamorgan and the coastal plain...

, 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

Gentile

The term Gentile refers to non-Israelite peoples or nations in English translations of the Bible....

 woman (Nia Roberts) with a strong-willed father (William Thomas

William Thomas (actor)

William Thomas is a Welsh actor, who has appeared in many TV episodes and films. He made his first appearance on TV in 1974, and his work, as an actor, is still ongoing...

) and a Jew-hating anti-Semitic brother (Mark Lewis Jones

Mark Lewis Jones

Mark Lewis Jones is a Welsh actor, whose roles include that of a police inspector in BBC drama series, 55 Degrees North, a whaler in the movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Tecton, a soldier in Troy....

). The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When an anti-Jewish pogrom

Pogrom

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 breaks out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.

Cast

• Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...
  
   as Solomon Levinsky
• Nia Roberts as Gaenor Rees
• Elliot Cantor as Benjamin Levinsky
• Sue Jones-Davies
  Sue Jones-Davies
  Sue Jones-Davies is a Welsh actress and singer, who appeared as Judith in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian. Mayor of Aberystwyth from 2008–2009, she now serves as town councillor.-Early life and education:Sue Jones-Davies was born in Wales...
  
   as Gwen
• William Thomas
  William Thomas (actor)
  William Thomas is a Welsh actor, who has appeared in many TV episodes and films. He made his first appearance on TV in 1974, and his work, as an actor, is still ongoing...
  
   as Idris Rees
• Mark Lewis Jones
  Mark Lewis Jones
  Mark Lewis Jones is a Welsh actor, whose roles include that of a police inspector in BBC drama series, 55 Degrees North, a whaler in the movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Tecton, a soldier in Troy....
  
   as Crad Rees
• Maureen Lipman
  Maureen Lipman
  Maureen Diane Lipman CBE is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.-Early life:Lipman was born in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman. Her father was a tailor; he used to have a shop between the...
  
   as Rezl
• David Horovitch
  David Horovitch
  David Horovitch is an English actor best known for playing the character of Inspector Slack in Miss Marple.-Life and career:...
  
   as Isaac
• Aled Phillips as Beautiful Boy in Church

Awards

• Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
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   2000
  • Best Foreign Language Film
    Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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     - Nominated

• Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film
  • Best Film (Paul Morrison
    Paul Morrison
    Paul Morrison is the name of:* John Paul Morrison , aka Paul Morrison or J. Paul Morrison, Canadian computer programmer* Paul Morrison , British film director & screenwriter...
    
    ) - 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