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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Ken Loach
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Actors:
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Padraic Delaney,
Orla Fitzgerald,
Mary O'Riordan,
Mary Murphy,
Laurence Barry,
Damien Kearney,
Frank Bourke,
Cillian Murphy,
Liam Cunningham,
Myles Horgan
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Duration:
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127 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)62.5
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Plot Summary:
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Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the principal of a guerrilla squadron fighting throughout the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical graduate of University College, would measure back his training at the London hospital where he has set a place. However, in a little while before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed past the monstrous Disgraceful and Tans and when all is said decides to link the defences underground group led by Teddy. The two brothers rail side during side until a truce is signed. But concord is dwar... fish-lived and when a specific controversy of the right-fighters accepts a treaty with the British that is regarded as unfair during the other splinter group, a courteous contend ensues, pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien....Read more Less
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Ireland 1920. Newly qualified doctor Damien (Murphy) abandons his plans to begin master-work in a London when British troops, the memorable Abominable and Tans, brutally murder story of his babyhood friends. Together with his associate Teddy (Delaney), the newly radicalised Damien swears an oath of allegiance to the nascent IRA and joins a 'flying column' - a mobile powerful service component specialising in countryside ambushes. As the war rages on, Damien's socialist leanings clank with Teddy's more pragmatic attitude until, as the revolution turns into non-military battling, they find themselves on opposing sides. To say that Ken Loach's latest is his best for years isn't to denigrate his outstanding Scottish trilogy (My Name Is Joe, Cloying Sixteen and Ae ...
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