The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Timing: 2:7 (127 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2006-06-23

Country

Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Production

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Pathé, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, UK Film Council, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Sixteen Films, Tornasol Films, Diaphana Films, BIM Productions, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Films, EMC Produktion, TV3 Television Network Ireland, Cinéart, Filmcoopi Zürich

Genre

Drama, War

Budget

$6 500 000

Revenue

$22 899 908

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Director

Ken Loach

Actors

Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane, Roger Allam, Laurence Barry, Sabrina Barry, Kieran Aherne
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Scenario

Producer

Rebecca O'Brien, Gerardo Herrero, Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney

Operator

Barry Ackroyd

Composer

George Fenton

Artist

Audition

Editing

Jonathan Morris
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• The film's title coincides with the title of a 19th-century Irish ballad by Robert Dwyer Joyce, dedicated to the 1798 rebellion.
• The man playing the piano in the cinema is actually a taper. It's Neil Brand, who became famous as a composer and accompanist in the television series "Silent Clowns" (2006).
• Ken Loach is not widely popular in his home country. Only thirty copies of this film were ordered throughout the United Kingdom (in France, for example, ten times as many were). After receiving the Palme d'Or, the number of copies increased to one hundred and five. Before that, no Loach film was shown on more than thirty-five screens.
• The man playing the piano in the cinema is actually a taper. This is Neil Brand, who gained prominence as a composer and accompanist in the television series 'Silent Clowns' (2006).