The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Drama, War | 2006-06-23 | Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

7.4 / 10

127 min.

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

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.

Sixteen Films

Matador Pictures

Regent Capital

Element Films

UK Film Council

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

BIM Distribuzione

EMC Produktion

Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Tornasol Media