Pred dozhdot [videorecording] : Milcho Manchevski Before the Rain

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Milcho Manchevski

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Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: Macedonian, Albanian, English Summary language: English Original language: Macedonian, Albanian Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 436Publication details: Republic of Macedonia France UK British Screen Productions European Co-production Fund 1994Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Before the Rain

Uniform titles:

Before the Rain

LOC classification:

PN1997 .P743 1994

Summary: From case cover: 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 Gerbedtija) 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. From IMDb: The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Republic of 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	SILC Learning Support Services DH132AA - Receiption/Circulation	PN1997 .P743 1994	Available		002333
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .P743 1994	Available		000749

Special features include:
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Annette Inudorf and Manchevski
- New video interview with actor Pade Serbedtija
- 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
- A new essay by film scholar Ian Christie

From case cover:
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 Gerbedtija) 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.

From IMDb:
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Republic of 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.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Region 1; 1.78:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Macedonian, English or Albanian audio. Optional English subtitles.

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