The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
15
23/06/2006 (GB)
Drama, War
2h 7m
- 74% (835 votes)
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War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
Overview
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
- Ken LoachDirector
- Paul LavertyScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$6,500,000
Revenue
$22,900,000
Keywords
- guerrilla warfare
- civil war
- sibling relationship
- england
- underground
- resistance
- peace
- independence
- traitor
- mercenary
- british army
- british empire
- dublin, ireland
- irish civil war (1922-23)
- historical fiction
- ira (irish republican army)
- ireland
- colonialism
- irish history
- irish
- depressing
Top Billed Cast
Cillian Murphy
Damien
Pádraic Delaney
Teddy
Liam Cunningham
Dan
Orla Fitzgerald
Sinead
Mary O'Riordan
Peggy
Mary Murphy
Bernadette
Laurence Barry
Micheail
Damien Kearney
Finbar
Frank Bourke
Leo
Myles Horgan
Rory
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