Before the Rain
MEANRANK
80/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94. Critics average 92, everyone else 78.
See the most agreed on films →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. 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.
Details
- Director
- Milcho Manchevski
- Writer
- Milcho Manchevski
- Studio
- British Screen Productions, PolyGram Audiovisuel, Vardar Film, Ministerstvo za kultura na Republika Makedonija
- Released
- 9 June 1994
- Country
- United Kingdom, Macedonia, France
- Language
- Macedonian
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $763.8K
- Awards
- 4 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (26) →
Awards & nominations
See all 7 →1 major award won · 4 wins from 7 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| Independent Spirit Awards 1994 | Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1994 | Best Foreign Language Film | Before the Rain | Nominee |
| Grand Prix 1996 1996 | Grand Prix | Before the Rain | Nominee |
| Argentine Film Critics Association Awards 1994 | Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| David di Donatello Awards 1994 | Special Award to a Non-Italian Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Guldbagge Awards 1994 | Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Nastro d'Argento 1994 | Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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| Best Foreign Language Film | Before the Rain | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Special Award to a Non-Italian Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Winner |
| Grand Prix | Before the Rain | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Before the Rain | Nominee |