The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
2006 film directed by Ken Loach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923). Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, the film tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien (Cillian Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan (Pádraic Delaney), who join the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish independence from the United Kingdom.
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Directed by | Ken Loach |
Written by | Paul Laverty |
Produced by | Rebecca O'Brien |
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Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
Music by | George Fenton |
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Running time | 126 minutes[3] |
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Budget | €6.5 million[1][4] ($8.3 million) |
Box office | $25.7 million[4] |
The film takes its title from Robert Dwyer Joyce's "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a song set during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the film. The film has a small number of parallels with Walter Macken's 1964 novel The Scorching Wind, in that it involves two brothers in the War of Independence and the Civil War.[citation needed]
Widely praised, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[5] Loach's biggest box office success to date,[6] the film did well around the world and set a record in Ireland as the highest-grossing Irish-made independent film, until surpassed by The Guard.[7]