• StatusReleased
  • Release Date2006-06-23
  • Runtime127 minutes
  • TaglineWar has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood.
  • Revenue22,900,000$
  • GenreDrama, War
  • Production
    CompaniesSixteen Films, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Element Pictures, BiM Distribuzione, EMC, Tornasol Media, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
  • Budget6,500,000$

Movie Overview

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Casts

Cillian Murphy

Pádraic Delaney

Liam Cunningham

Orla Fitzgerald

Damien Kearney

Frank Bourke

Aidan O'Hare

Keith Dunphy

Noel O'Donovan

Frank O'Sullivan

Roger Allam

William Ruane

Sean McGinley

Denis Conway

Antony Byrne

Jamie Lomas

Colin Parry