The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Name: The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Director: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2006-06-23
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan

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

Drama War

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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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DirectorKen Loach

Keywords

guerrilla warfarecivil warsibling relationshipenglandundergroundresistancepeaceindependencetraitormercenarybritish armybritish empiredublin, irelandirish civil war (1922-23)historical fictionira (irish republican army)irelandcolonialismirish historyirishdepressing

Budget$7M

Box Office$23M