The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006, Film, 127 min, Drama, War, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 77
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.
Directed by Ken Loach
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 - Volunteer
- Frank Bourke as Leo - Volunteer
- Myles Horgan as Rory - Volunteer
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