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Storyline

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.

Released

2006-06-23
Revenue

$22,900,000
Budget

$6,500,000
Runtime

2hr 7m
Genre

Drama, War
Status

Released
Language

English, Gaeilge, Latin
7.5
Production

Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BIM Produzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, TVE, Pathe

Crew

Ken Loach

Director

Paul Laverty

Screenplay

Rebecca O'Brien

Producer

Keywords:

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 irish history irish depressing

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Cast

Cillian Murphy

Damien

Pádraic Delaney

Teddy

Liam Cunningham

Dan

Orla Fitzgerald

Sinead

Mary O'Riordan

Peggy

Mary Murphy

Bernadette

Laurence Barry

Micheail

Damien Kearney

Finbar

Frank Bourke

Leo

Myles Horgan

Rory

Martin Lucey

Congo

Aidan O'Hare

Steady Boy

Shane Casey

Kevin

John Crean

Chris

Máirtín de Cógáin

Sean

Keith Dunphy

Terence

Kieran Hegarty

Francis

Gerard Kearney

Donacha

Shane Nott

Ned

Kevin O'Brien

Tim

Gary McCarthy

Volunteer

Tim O'Mahon

Volunteer

Graham Browne

Volunteer

Owen Buckley

Volunteer

Aidan Fitzpatrick

Volunteer

Vince Hannington

Volunteer

Denis Kelleher

Volunteer

Colin McClery

Volunteer

Finbar O'Mahon

Volunteer

John Quinlan

Volunteer

Peggy Lynch

Singer at Wake

Noel O'Donovan

Station Guard

Peter O'Mahoney

Stoker

Barry Bourke

Policeman

Frank O'Sullivan

Man in Pub

Diarmuid Ó'Dálaigh

Man in Pub

Corina Gough

Woman in Search

Roger Allam

Sir John Hamilton

Sabrina Barry

Julia

William Ruane

Johnny Gogan

Danny Riordan

Elderly Couple

Peg Crowley

Elderly Couple

Fiona Lawton

Lily

Kieran Aherne

Sweeney

Clare Dineen

Mrs. Rafferty

Sean McGinley

Father Denis

Tomas OhEalaithe

Boy on Bike

Nora Lynch

Mother of Sick Child

Diarmuid Ní Mheachair

Sick Child

Denis Conway

Priest

Barry L. Looney

Ceilidh Band

Connie O'Connail

Ceilidh Band

Aine O'Connor

Ceilidh Band

Francis O'Connor

Ceilidh Band

Peadr O'Riada

Ceilidh Band

Neil Brand

Newsreel Piano Accompanist

Tom Charnock

Sergeant at Cottage

Alan Ready

Sergeant at Station

Mark Wakeling

Lieutenant

Antony Byrne

Interrogator

Anthony Mark Streeter

British Soldier

Bill Armstrong

British Soldier

Christopher Bown

British Soldier

Mark Bryce

British Soldier

Alex Dee

British Soldier

Jonny Holmes

British Soldier

Allan Huntley

British Soldier

Bill Hurst

British Soldier

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British Soldier

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British Soldier

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British Soldier

Owen McQuade

British Soldier

Richard Oldham

British Soldier

Colin Parry

British Soldier

Scott Peden

British Soldier

Bernie Sweeney

British Soldier

Derek Taylor

British Soldier

Neil Alan Taylor

British Soldier

Gregor Wood

British Soldier

Karl Dawson

Volunteer (uncredited)

Niall McCarthy

Extra (uncredited)

Siobhán McSweeney

Julia (uncredited)

Seamus Moynihan

Policeman (uncredited)

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Movie Reviews

Reviews for The Wind That Shakes the Barley

A Review by tanty 8

Written by tanty on 2013-09-27

Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom.... read more

A Review by tmdb28039023 6

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-09-03

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 wri... read more

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 selfless heroism, even within the same film, as he does A Quiet Place Part II). The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a group whose main characteristic is separation, especially from itself; Loach deals with the original breakup, resulting in the first two iterations the IRA, drawing a parallel with the story of two brothers who feel compelled to put ideology before family because each is convinced they bleed greener than the other. It is said that history repeats itself; first as a tragedy, then as a farce. TWTStB follows this pattern, except that in the end the farce ends up being even more tragic than the tragedy. The first half of the film takes place during the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla war waged between 1919 and 1921 between the IRA and the British occupation forces in Ireland (which included Irish Unionists and Protestants, in contrast to Catholic Republicans). The second part takes place during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) which immediately followed the Anglo-Irish Treaty which resulted in the creation of the Irish Free State. Many of those who fought on both sides of the conflict had been members of the IRA during the War of Independence. The bitter irony is that an English character more or less foretells this when he says: "God save Ireland if ever the [Irish republicans] take control." I'm making it sound like a history class, but TWTStB is far from it; indeed, there is a lesson here, but it is a timeless and universal moral about the fratricidal nature of all wars. Loach and Laverty make their protagonists, Damien (Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan (Pádraic Delaney) biological brothers to emphasize that all men — Irish and Irish, or even, why not, Irish and English — are brothers and, as As Donne said, "the death of any man diminishes me" because "no man is an island." Now, just because their characters are symbolic archetypes doesn't mean that Murphy and Delaney just stand there holding signs that say "Cain" and "Abel"; the former in particular turns in a performance in which we can find shades of Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-03-26

Though quite provocative, I was really disappointed with the anti-British simplicity of this drama. It all centres around two brothers - "Te... read more

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A Review by Andres Gomez

Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom....

A Review by tanty 8

Written by tanty on 2013-09-27

Intense drama about Ireland's independence from the UK and the ultimate reasons for the need of freedom....

A Review by tmdb28039023 6

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-09-03

A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-03-26

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...