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Before the Rain: The Criterion Collection

DVD/APPROX. 113 MINS./1994/US NR

Main feature:

Release Jun 24, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audio Macedonian: Dolby Digital 2.0
Albanian: Dolby Digital 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1994
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • Remastered Audio and Video
  • 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 Christie

Synopsis:

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 1990s, 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.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Katrin CartlidgeRade ŠerbedžijaGregoire ColinLabina MitevskaJay Villiers"Before the Rain: The Criterion Collection"
Written byMilcho Manchevskiproduced byJudy Counihan
produced byMarc Baschet
produced byCedomir Kolar
produced byPaul Sarony
produced bySam Taylor
produced byChris Thompson
directed byMilcho Manchevski
Production Year: 1994

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