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Director 1945 - 2019

Paul Turner

Cornwall, England, UK

Paul Turner was a British film director. He learned Welsh while working at the BBC as a film editor in the 1980s. In 1993, his anti-war Welsh-language film Hedd Wyn became the first British film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards.

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Hedd Wyn

Hedd Wyn

Paul Turner 1992 2h 3m

A young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, a tradition dating back a hundred years. But before the winner is announced Hedd Wyn gets is sent to fight in the trenches of the First World War.

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