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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

NR ★ 7.3/10 127 min Drama, War Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain English

Director: Ken Loach

Screenplay by: Paul Laverty

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

Description

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.