Before the Rain

Film Info

Macedonia
1994
113 minutes
Color
1.78:1
English
Spine #436

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