Before the Rain
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.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- 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
New cover by Marc English
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- 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
New cover by Marc English
Cast
- Katrin Cartlidge
- Anne
- Rade Šerbedžija
- Aleksander
- Grégoire Colin
- Kiril
- Labina Mitevska
- Zamira
Credits
- Director
- Milcho Manchevski
- Screenplay
- Milcho Manchevski
- Producer
- Cat Villiers
- Producer
- Sam Taylor
- Producer
- Cedomir Kolar
- Producer
- Judy Counihan
- Co-producers
- Gorjan Tozija
- Co-producers
- Frederique Dumas-Zajdela
- Co-producers
- Marc Baschet
- Editing
- Nicolas Gaster
- Cinematography
- Manuel Teran
- Music
- Anastasia
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