The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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Drama

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

DIRECTED BYKen Loach127mins2006

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.

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