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Solomon & Gaenor
Solomon & Gaenor (Welsh: Solomon a Gaenor) is a 1999 Welsh film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Morrison. It stars Ioan Gruffudd as Solomon Lewinsky, an Orthodox Jewish man in early 20th-century Wales who falls in love with a gentile woman named Gaenor Rees, played by Nia Roberts. They enter into a forbidden love affair, which has tragic consequences.
The Welsh-language version was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
In 1911, Solomon Levinsky, a young Orthodox Jew, lives with his Yiddish-speaking family in the South Wales Valleys. Solomon peddles fabrics door to door but hides his ethnicity due to anti-Semitism. One day, Solomon meets a demure, young gentile woman named Gaenor Rees and instantly falls in love with her. Solomon tells Gaenor his name is Sam Livingstone and that his family is English.
Solomon returns after having made Gaenor a red dress and has her try it on. Struck by how beautiful Gaenor looks, Solomon and Gaenor share their first kiss.
Gaenor's father, Idris, finds the red dress and demands to know who gave it to her. Gaenor introduces Solomon (as Sam) to her family, who are polite but suspicious of his intentions. Knowing his own family will never accept him being with a gentile woman, Solomon hides the relationship at home.
Burdened by this secret, Solomon begins to struggle with his faith and feels distant from his family. After he and Gaenor are first intimate, Solomon guesses that she is not a virgin. She reveals that she was once engaged to a man, but they broke up after he was severely injured in a mining accident. Gaenor wants to meet Solomon's family, but he claims that his mother is ill and his father is away.
Gaenor's brother, Crad, invites Solomon for a drink with his friends and teases him about being a peddler. Before going to see Gaenor, Solomon always hides his tzitzit in a wall, but this time he is unable to find it. Gaenor becomes frustrated with Solomon's unwillingness to introduce her to his family and tells him she feels like she means nothing to him.
One day in chapel, a fellow worshipper named Noah Jones accuses Gaenor of being pregnant after "fornicating with an outsider." When asked by the Minister to confirm or deny the accusation, Gaenor admits to the whole congregation that she is pregnant. The Rees family is expelled from the chapel. Idris tells Gaenor she has to get married or she cannot keep the baby.
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Solomon & Gaenor
Solomon & Gaenor (Welsh: Solomon a Gaenor) is a 1999 Welsh film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Morrison. It stars Ioan Gruffudd as Solomon Lewinsky, an Orthodox Jewish man in early 20th-century Wales who falls in love with a gentile woman named Gaenor Rees, played by Nia Roberts. They enter into a forbidden love affair, which has tragic consequences.
The Welsh-language version was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
In 1911, Solomon Levinsky, a young Orthodox Jew, lives with his Yiddish-speaking family in the South Wales Valleys. Solomon peddles fabrics door to door but hides his ethnicity due to anti-Semitism. One day, Solomon meets a demure, young gentile woman named Gaenor Rees and instantly falls in love with her. Solomon tells Gaenor his name is Sam Livingstone and that his family is English.
Solomon returns after having made Gaenor a red dress and has her try it on. Struck by how beautiful Gaenor looks, Solomon and Gaenor share their first kiss.
Gaenor's father, Idris, finds the red dress and demands to know who gave it to her. Gaenor introduces Solomon (as Sam) to her family, who are polite but suspicious of his intentions. Knowing his own family will never accept him being with a gentile woman, Solomon hides the relationship at home.
Burdened by this secret, Solomon begins to struggle with his faith and feels distant from his family. After he and Gaenor are first intimate, Solomon guesses that she is not a virgin. She reveals that she was once engaged to a man, but they broke up after he was severely injured in a mining accident. Gaenor wants to meet Solomon's family, but he claims that his mother is ill and his father is away.
Gaenor's brother, Crad, invites Solomon for a drink with his friends and teases him about being a peddler. Before going to see Gaenor, Solomon always hides his tzitzit in a wall, but this time he is unable to find it. Gaenor becomes frustrated with Solomon's unwillingness to introduce her to his family and tells him she feels like she means nothing to him.
One day in chapel, a fellow worshipper named Noah Jones accuses Gaenor of being pregnant after "fornicating with an outsider." When asked by the Minister to confirm or deny the accusation, Gaenor admits to the whole congregation that she is pregnant. The Rees family is expelled from the chapel. Idris tells Gaenor she has to get married or she cannot keep the baby.