Land of Mine (2015)
(Under sandet/Unter dem Sand)
Country: DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Synopsis:
1945: a Danish sergeant is given a dozen or so German soldiers to clear mines from a Jutland beach. They are little more than boys, and he has no food to give them.
Review:
From the opening scene in which our sergeant viciously beats a German POW, we know what kind of spiritual journey we are in for, and the film does not disappoint. However, the moments of kindness are hard won and the focus is on the evidently traumatised state of a nation that can mistreat these boys as nothing more than 'mine fodder'. Their sacrifice stands as payment for the indignities meted out to the Danish people during the war, it would seem, but this powerful, magnificently shot film gives to reflect on the irresistible impulse towards friendship and understanding among human beings in extremis together.
(Under sandet/Unter dem Sand)
Country: DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Synopsis:
1945: a Danish sergeant is given a dozen or so German soldiers to clear mines from a Jutland beach. They are little more than boys, and he has no food to give them.
Review:
From the opening scene in which our sergeant viciously beats a German POW, we know what kind of spiritual journey we are in for, and the film does not disappoint. However, the moments of kindness are hard won and the focus is on the evidently traumatised state of a nation that can mistreat these boys as nothing more than 'mine fodder'. Their sacrifice stands as payment for the indignities meted out to the Danish people during the war, it would seem, but this powerful, magnificently shot film gives to reflect on the irresistible impulse towards friendship and understanding among human beings in extremis together.
(Under sandet/Unter dem Sand)
Country: DK/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 100m
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Synopsis:
1945: a Danish sergeant is given a dozen or so German soldiers to clear mines from a Jutland beach. They are little more than boys, and he has no food to give them.
Review:
From the opening scene in which our sergeant viciously beats a German POW, we know what kind of spiritual journey we are in for, and the film does not disappoint. However, the moments of kindness are hard won and the focus is on the evidently traumatised state of a nation that can mistreat these boys as nothing more than 'mine fodder'. Their sacrifice stands as payment for the indignities meted out to the Danish people during the war, it would seem, but this powerful, magnificently shot film gives to reflect on the irresistible impulse towards friendship and understanding among human beings in extremis together.