British director Ken Loach accepts the Palme d'Or (the Gold Palm), the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, for his work on "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," at the 59th edition of the festival on May 28, 2006. The film stars Cillian Murphy as an Irish medical student who takes up arms against a reign of terror by British troops sent in to quell calls for independence.
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