Land of Mine
They survived the second World War, now they must survive the cleanup
7.8 / 10
100 minutes
2015-12-03
Danish
DE
Actors :
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Joel Basman, Laura Bro, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel, Karl Alexander Seidel, Maximilian Beck, August Carter, Tim Bülow, Alexander Rasch, Julius Kochinke
Description
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.
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Reviews
Reno
5/16/2024, 3:18:31 PM
> Teen POWs in the post WWII Denmark. A Danish war-drama that was inspired by the historical account, but all the characters were fictional. Remember this title for another six month, because I am confident this film will make a journey to the west coast of the USA to compete at the 89th Academy Awards in the coming February. I have seen many foreign films, but I'm not this much positive for an...
tmdb28039023
9/5/2022, 4:54:54 PM
There are myriad movies about World War II, but never have I encountered one able to generate such sympathy for German soldiers and contempt for non-Teutonic Europeans as Under Sandet does. The film tells the story of German POWs who were ordered to clear landmines in Denmark after the war. These are not your stereotypically evil Nazi officers, but pubescent foot soldiers — if they seem like s...