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The Wind That Shakes the Barley |
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Genre
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Drama,
Period Film,
Political Drama.
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Year
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2006 |
Director
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Ken Loach.
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Actors
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Cillian Murphy,
Liam Cunningham,
Padraic Delaney,
Orla Fitzgerald,
Mary Riordan,
Mary Murphy,
Lawrence Barry,
Damien Kearney,
Frank Bourke,
Myles Horgan,
Martin Lucey,
Aidan O'Hare,
Shane Casey,
John Crean,
Martin de Cogain,
Keith Dunphy,
Kieran Hegarty,
Gerard Kearney,
Shane Nott,
Kevin O'Brien,
Gary McCarthy,
Tim O'Mahon,
Graham Browne,
Owen Buckley,
Aidan Fitzpatick,
Vince Hannington,
Denis Kelleher,
Colin McClery,
Finbar O'Mahon,
John Quinlan,
Peggy Lynch,
Noel O'Donovan,
Peter O'Manhoney,
Barry Bourke,
Frank O'Sullivan,
Diamuíd Ó'Dálaigh,
Corina Gough,
Roger Allam,
Sabrina Barry,
William Ruane,
Dan O'Riordan,
Peg Crowley,
Fiona Lawton,
Kieran Ahmem,
Clare Dineen,
Sean McGinley,
Tomas Ohealaithe,
Nora Lynch,
Diamuid Ní Mheachair,
Denis Conway,
Barry Looney,
Connie O'Connail,
Aine O'Connor,
Frances O'Connor,
O'Riada Peadr,
Neil Brand,
Tom Chamock,
Alan Ready,
Mark Wakeling,
Anthony Byrne,
Marcus Anthony,
Bill Armstrong,
Christopher Brown,
Mark Bryce,
Alex Dee,
Jonny Holmes,
Allan Huntley,
Bill Hurst,
Daniel Kington,
Jamie Lomas,
Anthony Martin,
Owen McQuade,
Richard Oldham,
Colin Parry,
Scott Peden,
Bernie Sweeney,
Derek Taylor,
Neil Alan Taylor,
Gregor Wood.
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File
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Runtime: |
126:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip / xvid |
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1413.12 Mb |
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Storyline:
Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach. It's 1920, and Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) has recently graduated from medical school. Damien plans to leave the small village in Ireland where he was born to take a job in London, much to the annoyance of his brother Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who is an Irish loyalist and wants to see the British stripped of their rule of his land. While visiting Peggy (Mary Riordan), a longtime friend of the family, Damien and Teddy witness a visit by "Black and Tans," British soldiers who supposedly keep the peace in Ireland; the soldiers turn violent and murder Michaeil (Lawrence Barry), Peggy's grandson, when they discover he only speaks Gaelic. Damien is radicalized by the event, and with Teddy joins the local chapter of the Irish Republican Army, who use violence to drive British troops out of the country. While the IRA is a poor and ill-equipped fighting force, their willingness to give their lives for their cause is taken very seriously by the British, who step up their reprisals against the locals; the Black and Tans even begin directing their violence and torture against women and children, including Damien's girlfriend, Sinead (Orla Fitzgerald). In 1921, Britain attempts to end the violence in Ireland by creating the Irish Free State, a compromise government which will give the Irish greater autonomy while Great Britain still retains final political control of the nation. Teddy sees this as a victory and believes it's an important first step to a truly free Ireland, but Damien sees the IRA's goal as nothing short of complete independence, and the brothers and allies soon become rivals in a battle neither side can win. The Wind That Shakes the Barley received the Golden Palm award as Best Picture at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. |
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