The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006·Movie
·2h 7min·


About
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.
Irish War of IndependencePolitical IntrigueBrother vs. BrotherHistorical DramaSocial CommentaryBleak RealismGuerrilla WarfareTragic Conflict
Actors
Crew
Directed by:
Ken Loach, Susanna Lenton
Written by:
Paul Laverty
Produced by:
Gerardo Herrero, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
Composed by:
George Fenton, Ben Brazier, John Hayward
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