Before the Rain (Macedonian: Пред дождот; Transliteration: Pred doždot) is a 1994 Macedonian film starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, and Labina Mitevska. It was directed and wroted by Milčo Mančevski. The music was created by Anastasia. Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Katrin Cartlidge in Career Girls (1997) Katrin Cartlidge (May 15, 1961 – September 7, 2002) was a British actress. ... Rade Å erbedžija Rade Å erbedžija (born 27 July 1946) is a Croatian actor and director of ethnic Serbian descent. ... Milčo Mančevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски; usually credited as Milcho Manchevski) (born 18 October 1959 in Skopje) is a Macedonian film director and screenwriter. ... Anastasia is the the name of a Macedonian music band. ...

Synopsis

The film is a trilogy ,and all three stories focus on tragic and fated love affairs. In the first episode, Words, we meet a young, quiet monk, Kiril, who stands up for Zamira, a young Albanian woman who stand accused of murder and is on the run from a posse. For her sake he leaves the monastery and the two of them make their way through the enchantingly beautiful Macedonian landscape. Unfortunately their romance is heading towards a sudden and brutal end.

Faces is set in bustling and trendy London. Anne, a beautiful picture editor, is torn between the love of her husband Nick and the attraction she feels to Aleksandar, a disillusioned war photographer. She is pulled into a series of tragic events by a shoot-out at a nearby restaurant.

The third and final part, Pictures, brings the plot and the characters together. It focuses on Alexandar when he returns to Macedonia to settle. He finds out how the war has divided his home village and how his Albanian neighbours are seen as enemies. Hana, an Albanian woman with which he used to be in love - and still is - asks him to take care of her daughter Zamira….

While he sets out to find the girl the storm is building on the horizon. The plot is ingeniously pulled together and suddenly we are back where we started. A remarkable and striking play with time which heightens the feeling of fatalism and the littleness of man

Historical background

The movie is not based on real events. There was no armed conflict between Albanians and Macedonians at the time the film was made. There were, however, clashes in 2001.

Awards

The film was nominated for Academy Award, several awards in Venice Film Festival including Golden Lion. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ...

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• Before the Rain at the Internet Movie Database