Before the Rain
1994 · Movie · 110 min. · North Macedonia
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant. She wants permanence with her lover, a prize-winning Macedonian photographer just back from Bosnia, changed by the violence. He leaves abruptly for his village; he's not visited it in 16 years. There he tries to ignore bitter divisions between his Orthodox brethren and local Albanians, then tries to transcend them.
Direction Milcho Manchevski
Cast Katrin Cartlidge · Rade Serbedzija · Grégoire Colin · Labina Mitevska · Jay Villiers · Phyllida Law
Soundtrack Anastasia
Screenplay Milcho Manchevski
Cinematography Manuel Teran
Original title Before the Rain (Pred Dozdot)
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