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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Drama War

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

Release Date: 2006, June 23
Directors: Ken Loach
Countries: Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy
Production: Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, UK Film Council, TV3
Cast: Cillian Murphy, William Armstrong, Roger Allam, Sean McGinley, Mark Wakeling, Keith Dunphy, Siobhán McSweeney, Liam Cunningham, Denis Conway, Frank Bourke, Bill Hurst, Aine O'Connor

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

sibling relationship england mercenary resistance traitor civil war underground historical fiction british army depressing british empire guerrilla warfare independence peace dublin, ireland ira (irish republican army) ireland irish colonialism irish civil war (1922-23) irish history