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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006Directed by Ken Loach2h 7m

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.

  • Drama
  • War

Cast

  • Cillian Murphy as Damien
  • Pádraic Delaney as Teddy
  • Liam Cunningham as Dan
  • Orla Fitzgerald as Sinead
  • Mary O'Riordan as Peggy
  • Mary Murphy as Bernadette
  • Laurence Barry as Micheail
  • Damien Kearney as Finbar
  • Frank Bourke as Leo
  • Myles Horgan as Rory
  • Martin Lucey as Congo
  • Aidan O'Hare as Steady Boy
  • Shane Casey as Kevin
  • John Crean as Chris
  • Máirtín de Cógáin as Sean
  • Keith Dunphy as Terence

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