Before the Rain
Jun 09 1994
•2h 53m
•Drama, War
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.
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Katrin Cartlidge
Anne
Rade Šerbedžija
Aleksander
Grégoire Colin
Kiril
Labina Mitevska
Zamira
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