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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.

20062h 7mNR 7.3/ 10

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

  • Cillian MurphyDamien
  • Pádraic DelaneyTeddy
  • Liam CunninghamDan
  • Orla FitzgeraldSinead
  • M
    Mary O'RiordanPeggy
  • M
    Mary MurphyBernadette
  • L
    Laurence BarryMicheail
  • Damien KearneyFinbar
  • Frank BourkeLeo
  • M
    Myles HorganRory
  • M
    Martin LuceyCongo
  • Aidan O'HareSteady Boy
  • Shane CaseyKevin
  • J
    John CreanChris
  • M
    Máirtín de CógáinSean
  • Keith DunphyTerence

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