Land of Mine

Why tonight?

• ◆Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
• ◆It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
• ◆Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.

The story

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.

• beach
• prisoner of war
• post world war ii
• land mine
• 1940s
• minefield
• sudden death
• boy soldier
• meager rations