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Director Ken Loach
Screenplay Paul Laverty

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Tagline: War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

Release Date: 2006-06-23

Duration: 127 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Cillian Murphy
    Damien
  • Liam Cunningham
    Dan
  • Antony Byrne
    Interrogator
  • Sean McGinley
    Father Denis
  • Siobhán McSweeney
    Julia (uncredited)
  • Roger Allam
    Sir John Hamilton
  • Keith Dunphy
    Terence
  • Pádraic Delaney
    Teddy
  • Orla Fitzgerald
    Sinead
  • Frank O'Sullivan
    Man in Pub

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