Before The Rain (DVD)

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1994
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Genre: Drama
Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska
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Language: English, Macedonian, Albanian
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Description

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.