Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.
Acting
Del Toro's world-weary cynicism anchors every scene.
Writing
Dialogue that finds comedy in bureaucratic despair.
Director
Fernando León de Aranoa
Benicio del Toro
Mambrú
Tim Robbins
B
Olga Kurylenko
Katya
Mélanie Thierry
Sophie
Feđa Štukan
Damir
Eldar Rešidović
Nicola
Sergi López
Goyo
Nenad Vukelić
Nikola's Grandfather
Morten Suurballe
UN Official at the Briefing
Ben Temple
UN Official's Assistant
Frank Feys
UN Official at the Well
Antonio Franić
Soldier at the Storage
Goran Navojec
Bosnian NGO Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the novel 'Dejarse Llover' by Paula Farias, who drew from her own aid worker experiences in the Balkans.
The film captures the specific absurdity of post-Yugoslav Bosnia, where UN bureaucracy and local warlord politics created impossible Catch-22s for humanitarian workers.
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