The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Synopsis

In 1920 County Cork during the Irish War of Independence, two brothers abandon their peaceful medical and farming careers to join a guerrilla flying column fighting against the brutal British Black and Tans, only to find themselves on opposing, lethal sides of the subsequent bloody Irish Civil War when the Anglo-Irish Treaty divides the nation. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning tragic historical epic starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney.