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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
Jun 23, 2006 · 2h 7m
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Drama
War

PLOT

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
Damien
Pádraic Delaney
Teddy
Liam Cunningham
Dan
Orla Fitzgerald
Sinead
Mary O'Riordan
Peggy
Mary Murphy
Bernadette
Laurence Barry
Micheail
Damien Kearney
Finbar
Directed by Ken Loach

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$6,500,000
Revenue
$22,903,165
Production
Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, UK Film Council, TV3
Country
IE, GB

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