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Land of Mine

Land of Mine

They survived the second World War, now they must survive the cleanup

20157.81h 40m

Overview

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.

Directed by Martin Zandvliet
Written by Martin Zandvliet
Produced by Mikael Chr. Rieks, Malte Grunert
Box OfficeBudget: $5.1M0

Top Cast

Roland Møller

Roland Møller

Sgt. Carl Rasmussen

Louis Hofmann

Louis Hofmann

Sebastian Schumann

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Lt. Ebbe Jensen

Joel Basman

Joel Basman

Helmut Morbach

Laura Bro

Laura Bro

Karin

Oskar Bökelmann

Oskar Bökelmann

Ludwig Haffke

Emil Belton

Emil Belton

Ernst Lessner

Oskar Belton

Oskar Belton

Werner Lessner

Leon Seidel

Leon Seidel

Wilhelm Hahn

Karl Alexander Seidel

Karl Alexander Seidel

Manfred

Themes & Keywords

beachprisoner of warpost world war iiland mine1940sminefieldsudden deathboy soldiermeager rations

About Land of Mine

Land of Mine is a war, drama, history film released in 2015 exploring themes of beach, prisoner of war, post world war ii, land mine, 1940s, minefield. Directed by Martin Zandvliet, it stars Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. 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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