The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Movie Details

Original Title The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Original Language EN

Budget $6,500,000

Revenue $22,900,000

Status Released

Popularity 1.8

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Damien

Popularity: 5.9

Pádraic Delaney

Teddy

Popularity: 0.9

Liam Cunningham

Dan

Popularity: 10.4

Orla Fitzgerald

Sinead

Popularity: 1.9

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Mary O'Riordan

Peggy

Popularity: 0.2

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Mary Murphy

Bernadette

Popularity: 0.1

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Laurence Barry

Micheail

Popularity: 0.1

Damien Kearney

Finbar

Popularity: 0.6

Frank Bourke

Leo

Popularity: 0.9

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Myles Horgan

Rory

Popularity: 0.1

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Martin Lucey

Congo

Popularity: 1.9

Aidan O'Hare

Steady Boy

Popularity: 0.5

Key Crew

Director Ken Loach

Screenplay Paul Laverty

Producer Rebecca O'Brien, Gerardo Herrero

Editor Jonathan Morris

Executive Producer Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney

Production

Sixteen Films

Matador Pictures

Regent Capital

Element Pictures

BiM Distribuzione

EMC

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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

Reviews from TMDB

Andres Gomez 8/10

Sep 27, 2013

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

tmdb28039023 6/10

Sep 3, 2022

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 ... Read more

CinemaSerf 6/10

Mar 26, 2023

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 increasingly desperate - and violent - tactics they employed to eject the occupiers from their cou ... Read more