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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006 · 2h 7m · Drama, War

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

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.

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Cast

• Cillian Murphy as Damien
• Pádraic Delaney as Teddy
• Liam Cunningham as Dan
• Orla Fitzgerald as Sinead
• Mary O'Riordan as Peggy
• Mary Murphy as Bernadette
• Laurence Barry as Micheail
• Damien Kearney as Finbar
• Frank Bourke as Leo
• Myles Horgan as Rory
• Martin Lucey as Congo
• Aidan O'Hare as Steady Boy

Details

Director

Ken Loach

Released

June 23, 2006

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Drama, War

Studio

Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures and Regent Capital

Status

Released

TMDB score

7.3 / 10 from 934 votes