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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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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7.3TMDB
7.5IMDb
90%Rotten Tomatoes
82Metascore

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Cast

  • Cillian Murphy

    Cillian Murphy

    Damien

  • Pádraic Delaney

    Pádraic Delaney

    Teddy

  • Liam Cunningham

    Liam Cunningham

    Dan

  • Orla Fitzgerald

    Orla Fitzgerald

    Sinead

  • M

    Mary O'Riordan

    Peggy

  • M

    Mary Murphy

    Bernadette

  • L

    Laurence Barry

    Micheail

  • Damien Kearney

    Damien Kearney

    Finbar

  • Frank Bourke

    Frank Bourke

    Leo

  • M

    Myles Horgan

    Rory

  • M

    Martin Lucey

    Congo

  • Aidan O'Hare

    Aidan O'Hare

    Steady Boy

  • Shane Casey

    Shane Casey

    Kevin

  • J

    John Crean

    Chris

  • M

    Máirtín de Cógáin

    Sean

Directors

  • Ken Loach

    Ken Loach

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