Before the Rain
Before the Rain • 1h 53m
Directed by Milcho Manchevski • 1994 • Republic of Macedonia
Starring Grégoire Colin, Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija
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.
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BEFORE THE RAIN Commentary
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Rade Serbedzija on BEFORE THE RAIN
Rade Serbedzija was born in Croatia to an ethnic Derbian family and became one of the most popular Yugoslav actors of the 1970s and ’80s. In 1993, during the war in the former Yugoslavia, he fled to London, where Milcho Manchevski tracked him down to star in BEFORE THE RAIN. In this 2008 intervie...
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Behind the Scenes of BEFORE THE RAIN ...
In this program, shot in 1993, during the filming of BEFORE THE RAIN, cast and crew share their thoughts about working together in Macedonia and the challenges they faced.
