Before The Rain
Criterion Collection (1994)
Drama
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#1451
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IMDB   8.0
1 hr 53 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Katrin Cartlidge Anne
Rade Serbedzija Aleksander
Gregoire Colin Kiril
Labina Mitevska Zamira
Jay Villiers Nick
Silvija Stojanovska Hana
Phyllida Law Anne's Mother
Josif Josifovski Father Marko
Kiro Ristevski Father Damjan
Petar Mircevski Zdrave
Ljupco Bresliski Mitre
Igor Madzirov Stojan
Ilko Stefanovski Bojan
Suzana Kirandziska Neda
Katerina Kocevska Kate
Director
Milcho Manchevski
Producer Sam Taylor
Frederique Dumas-Zajdela
Writer Milcho Manchevski

The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski's Before The Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Gregoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Serbedzija) to paint a portrait of simmering, entrenched ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema's most poetic evocations of the futility of war.
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