The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Release date: 06/23/2006

Budget: $6,500,000

Revenue: $22,900,000

Genres:

Drama, War

Countries:

Belgium
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom

Rating:

7.4

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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Actors

Cillian Murphy

Damien

Pádraic Delaney

Teddy

Liam Cunningham

Dan

Orla Fitzgerald

Sinead

Frank Bourke

Leo

Aidan O'Hare

Steady Boy

Keith Dunphy

Terence

Noel O'Donovan

Station Guard

Frank O'Sullivan

Man in Pub

Roger Allam

Sir John Hamilton

William Ruane

Johnny Gogan

Sean McGinley

Father Denis

Denis Conway

Priest

Mark Wakeling

Lieutenant

Antony Byrne

Interrogator

Colin Parry

British Soldier

Siobhán McSweeney

Julia (uncredited)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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