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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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

7.3/ 1020062h 7mNR

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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.

Directed by Ken Loach

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Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Damien

Pádraic Delaney

Pádraic Delaney

Teddy

Liam Cunningham

Liam Cunningham

Dan

Orla Fitzgerald

Orla Fitzgerald

Sinead

Mary O'Riordan

Peggy

Mary Murphy

Bernadette

Laurence Barry

Micheail

Damien Kearney

Damien Kearney

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