Overview - The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • War

Runtime: 127 minutes

Homepage: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Budget

$6,500,000.00

Revenue

$22,900,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • Gaeilge
  • Latin
  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Sixteen Films

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Matador Pictures

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Regent Capital

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Element Pictures

    Production country Ireland

  • Name: BiM Distribuzione

    Production country Italy

  • Name: EMC

    Production country Germany

  • Name: Tornasol Media

    Production country Spain

  • Name: Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

    Production country Ireland

  • Name: UK Film Council

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: TV3

    Production country Spain

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Cillian Murphy

    Character: Damien

    Popularity: 6.2173

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  • Name: Pádraic Delaney

    Character: Teddy

    Popularity: 0.2365

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  • Name: Liam Cunningham

    Character: Dan

    Popularity: 2.2808

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  • Name: Orla Fitzgerald

    Character: Sinead

    Popularity: 0.2425

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  • Name: Mary O'Riordan

    Character: Peggy

    Popularity: 0.0382

  • Name: Mary Murphy

    Character: Bernadette

    Popularity: 0.0561

  • Name: Laurence Barry

    Character: Micheail

    Popularity: 0.0863

  • Name: Damien Kearney

    Character: Finbar

    Popularity: 0.2063

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