The Snow Spider

The Snow Spider (1988)

Fantasy

On his ninth birthday, young Gwyn (Osian Roberts), who lives on a remote hill farm in Wales, receives five strange gifts from his grandmother (Siân Phillips): a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a metal brooch and a small broken horse. Gwyn offers the brooch to the wind and receives back a tiny silvery spider - Arianwen, the snow spider - confirming that, as his grandmother had already guessed, he has inherited magical powers from his Celtic ancestor Gwydyon, a powerful magician whose exploits are described in the fourth book ("Math Son of Mathonwy") of the Mabinogion. With the help of the snow spider, Gwyn embarks on adventures involving other worlds of snow and silver, as he attempts to solve the five-year-old mystery of his sister Beth's disappearance in a snow storm.

Director: Pennant Roberts

Casts

	Siân Phillips as Nain Griffiths
	Sharon Morgan as Gynis Griffiths
	Robert Blythe as Ivor Griffiths
	Osian Roberts as Gwyn Griffiths
	Gareth Pritchard as Alun Lloyd
	Rossilyn Killick as Eirlys
	Gillian Elisa as Mrs. Davies
	Ifan Huw Dafydd as Mr. Davies
	Jill Richards as Mrs. Lloyd
	Glan Davies as Mr. Lloyd
	Noel Williams as Doctor
	John McAvoy as PC Price
	T. Graham Williams as Searcher
	Jethro Hood as Twin
	Spike Hood as Twin
	Andrew Morgan as Dewi Davies

Crew