The Wind That Shakes the Barley

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Laurence Barry · Myles Horgan · Orla Fitzgerald · Mary Murphy · Paul Laverty · Cillian Murphy · Liam Cunningham · Frank Bourke · Pádraic Delaney · Damien Kearney · Mary O'Riordan · Ken Loach

Studios & networks

BiM Distribuzione · Element Pictures · EMC · Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland · Matador Pictures · Regent Capital · Sixteen Films · Tornasol Media · TV3 · UK Film Council