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LAND OF MINE
Under sandet
Synopsis
As World War II comes to an end, a group of German POWs—boys rather than men—are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task: to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
Synopsis
As World War II comes to an end, a group of German POWs—boys rather than men—are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task: to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
Our take
A tightly-wound drama from Danish filmmaker Martin Zandvliet, Land of Mine unearths a little-known chapter in postwar history. As with The Hurt Locker, there’s inherent suspense to be eked from a landscape littered with unexploded mines, and Zandvliet’s taut direction has its finger on the trigger.