The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

🎞️ Movie 127 min IE
โ˜… 7.5 /10 2006

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

In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.

Cast

Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
Damien
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Pádraic Delaney
Teddy
Liam Cunningham
Liam Cunningham
Dan
Orla Fitzgerald
Orla Fitzgerald
Sinead
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Mary O'Riordan
Peggy
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Mary Murphy
Bernadette
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Laurence Barry
Micheail
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Damien Kearney
Finbar - Volunteer
Frank Bourke
Frank Bourke
Leo - Volunteer
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Myles Horgan
Rory - Volunteer
George Fenton
George Fenton
Composer
Barry Ackroyd
Barry Ackroyd
Cinematographer

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