Story about The Wind That Shakes the Barley / 吹动大麦的风 / 风吹稻浪 / 风吹麦浪
A sympathetic look at Republican in early 20th century Ireland, and two brother who are torn apart b...
A sympathetic look at Republican in early 20th century Ireland, and two brother who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.
In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels againt the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoner changes his mind. he return and join the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing firt-hand endless suffering. When IRA leader negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however join the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brother.
