The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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.
- Year : 2006
- Country : Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Genre : Drama, War
- Studio : Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, UK Film Council, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Element Films, EMC Produktion, Tornasol Media, Diaphana Films, TV3 Television Network Ireland, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Pathé, BIM Productions, Cinéart Productions, Filmcoopi Zürich, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Keyword : guerrilla warfare, civil war, sibling relationship, england, underground, resistance, peace, independence, traitor, mercenary, british army, british empire, dublin, ireland, irish civil war (1922-23), historical fiction, ira (irish republican army), ireland, colonialism
- Director : Ken Loach
- Cast : Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy