Synopsis
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 (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Šerbedžija) to paint a portrait of simmering 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 powerful laments on the futility of war.
Cast
| Anne | Katrin Cartlidge |
| Aleksander | Rade Šerbedžija |
| Kiril | Grégoire Colin |
| Zamira | Labina Mitevska |
Credits
| Director | Milcho Manchevski |
| Screenplay | Milcho Manchevski |
| Producer | Cat Villiers, Sam Taylor, Cedomir Kolar and Judy Counihan |
| Co-producers | Gorjan Tozija, Frederique Dumas-Zajdela and Marc Baschet |
| Editing | Nicolas Gaster |
| Cinematography | Manuel Teran |
| Music | Anastasia |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Milcho Manchevski
- Audio commentary featuring Manchevski and film scholar Annette Insdorf
- New video interview with actor Rade Šerbedžija
- Behind the Scenes in Macedonia, a short 1993 documentary about the making of Before the Rain
- Soundtrack selections, featuring the music of Macedonian band Anastasia
- On-set footage, theatrical trailers, and stills galleries of production photos, storyboards, and letters
- A selection from Manchevski’s photography collection Street
- Manchevski’s award-winning “Tennessee” music video
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ian Christie
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