- HD 1080
- Runtime: 113m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: mk
- Country: United Kingdom, Macedonia, France
- Director: Milcho Manchevski
- Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Phyllida Law
- keywords: london, england, monk, mountain, restaurant, war photographer, fashion photographer, albanian, macedonia
- Production_studio: British Screen Productions, PolyGram Audiovisuel, Vardar Film, Ministerstvo za kultura na Republika Makedonija, Noé Productions, AIM Group, Gramercy Pictures
- Slogan: Time Never Dies, the Circle is Not Round.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Before the Rain is featured in the top rankings of 1994
- #23 in Top Drama Movies of 1994
- #3 in Top War Movies of 1994
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.