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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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.
2006 · Directed by Ken Loach · 127 min · Drama · War · 20 frames
Tagline
War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
Crew
- Screenplay: Paul Laverty
- Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd
- Edited by: Jonathan Morris
- Music: George Fenton
- Production design: Fergus Clegg
- Produced by: Rebecca O'Brien, Gerardo Herrero, Redmond Morris
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
Production
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain
- Language: Irish, Latin, English
- Studios: Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Box office: $22,903,165
- Themes: guerrilla warfare, civil war, sibling relationship, england, underground, resistance, peace, independence, traitor, mercenary
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