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Before the rain [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Milcho Manchevski.

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The Criterion Collection, c2008.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Drama.

Macedonia (Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 436.

Alternate title:

Pred dozhdot [videorecording (DVD)]

Behind the scenes in Macedonia [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved special ed.

1 videodisc (113 min.) : Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (1 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Milcho Machevski ; audio commentary featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf and Manchevski ; new video interview with actor Rade Serbedzija ; 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 Christ.

1.78:1 aspect ratio enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.

In Macedonian, English and Albanian with optional English subtitles.

Music composed by "Anastasia" ; produced by Judy Counihan, Cedomir Kolar, Sam Taylor, Cat Villiers ; written and directed by Milcho Manchevski.

Rade Šerbedžija, Katrin Cartlidge, Gregoire Colin and Labina Mitevska.

"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 (Gregoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Serbedzija) to paint a portrait of simmering, entrenched 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 poetic evocations of the futility of war."--Container.

Macedonian films.

Anti-war films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Manchevski, Milcho.

Cartlidge, Katrin.

Šerbedžija, Rade, 1946-

Colin, Grégoire.

Mitevska, Labina.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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