The Wind That Shakes the Barley
War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
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.
- Budget
- $6,500,000
- Revenue
- $22,900,000
- Production
- Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, UK Film Council, TV3
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Cast
Cillian Murphy
Damien
Pádraic Delaney
Teddy
Liam Cunningham
Dan
Orla Fitzgerald
Sinead
Damien Kearney
Finbar
Frank Bourke
Leo
Aidan O'Hare
Steady Boy
Shane Casey
Kevin
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
Antony Byrne
Interrogator
William Armstrong
British Soldier
Alex Dee
British Soldier
Colin Parry
British Soldier
Siobhán McSweeney
Julia (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Ken Loach
- Writers
- Paul Laverty
- Cinematography
- Barry Ackroyd
- Composer
- George Fenton
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User Reviews from TMDB
Andres Gomez
September 27, 2013
Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom.
tmdb28039023
September 3, 2022
After watching The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I'm tempted to say that Hollywood ruined Cillian Murphy, but the fact is that this drama written by Paul Laverty and directed by Ken Loach doesn’t really establish, for better or worse, a before and after in the career of the Irish actor; it's more a case of a blind squirrel finding a nut — which is still one more nut than most find (plus, Murphy's range is undeniable, being able to convincingly convey both the most abject cowardice and the most se…
CinemaSerf
March 26, 2023
Though quite provocative, I was really disappointed with the anti-British simplicity of this drama. It all centres around two brothers - "Teddy" (Pádraic Delaney) and "Damien" (Cillian Murphy) and the increasingly desperate - and violent - tactics they employed to eject the occupiers from their country. The latter man is not an instant convert to these activities. About to travel to the UK to be a doctor, it's the thuggish squaddies' brutality that convinces him to stay and join his local IRA br…