The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Movies
- 2006-06-23
- EN
- Released
- 2h 7m
- GB
- Drama - War
- Budget: $6,500,000.00
Production
Sixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Tagline
War has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
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.
