Before the Rain

About Before the Rain

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own.

Before the Rain is a 1994 war film directed by Milcho Manchevski. Released in June 1994, it runs 113 minutes.

Its themes are restaurant, mountain, monk, and war photographer.

Katrin Cartlidge takes the lead as Anne, Rade Šerbedžija as Aleksander, Grégoire Colin as Kiril, and Labina Mitevska as Zamira. The screenplay is by Milcho Manchevski. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Burnt, For Your Eyes Only, and Boiling Point make useful companions to Before the Rain. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 196 votes and it carries a NR rating.