Story Line
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.
“War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.”
Top Cast
Cillian Murphy
Damien
Pádraic Delaney
Teddy
Liam Cunningham
Dan
Orla Fitzgerald
Sinead
Mary O'Riordan
Peggy
Mary Murphy
Bernadette
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
2006-06-23
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
DramaWar
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User Reviews (3)
Andres Gomez
8/10
•9/27/2013Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom.
tmdb28039023
6/10
•9/3/2022After 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 aft...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•3/26/2023Though 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 th...