Under the watchful eye of Sergeant Rasmussen, a bitterly contemptuous Danish soldier, they work for days without food. The prisoners of war are little more than boys, and their task is effectively a death sentence. Zandvliet’s film focuses on a group of young German POWs forced to clear land mines that line the coast of Denmark – mines placed there by Nazi occupiers. The Danes may have been the victors, but that doesn’t mean they let they let their prisoners off lightly. His Oscar-nominated feature finds its story in Denmark after the war. However, Danish film director Martin Zandvliet isn’t interested in depicting obvious villains – in Land of Mine (Danish: Under Sandet, 2015), he prefers to find moments when “traditional” heroes act villainously. The villains have swastikas on their arms, and the heroes are whoever isn’t fighting for the Nazis. It’s usually pretty easy to know who the bad guys are in WWII films.
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