The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ireland, 2006
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy, Laurence Barry, Damien Kearney, Frank Bourke, Myles Horgan, Martin Lucey, Aidan O'Hare, Shane Casey, John Crean, Máirtín de Cógáin
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Ken Loach's film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is a dramatic telling of the Irish Republican's fight against the British in the 1920s and the bloody civil war that broke out following the establishment of the Free State in 1922. Cillian Murphy plays Damien, Padraic Delaney his bother Teddy. Teddy is a committed member of an IRA unit that harries the Black and Tans and the English landowners and, as the British violence grows, Damien reluctantly joins him.
