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Much of the suspense here hinges on the treacherous work at hand, but the actors playing the Germans are across the board excellent, particularly twins Ernst and Werner (Emil and Oskar Belton), who fantasize about the bricklaying business they’re going to start once they get back to Germany. As the sergeant tells them early on, “If you clear eight mines an hour, you can return to your homes in six months.” As the captives literally crawl along the beach, gently poking small metal rods into the sand in hopes of detecting a land mine without actually tripping it, the masterful Land of Mine slowly, almost without notice, transforms into one of the most viscerally intense anti-war films since Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. And that’s where director Martin Zandvilet gets you: As much as we revile Hitler’s sick dream and in turn the soldiers that carried it out, these flesh-and-blood minesweepers are just kids, scared, starving, and dying to go home, literally. But to Rasmussen and the Danes, a disarmed land mine is of more worth than a live Nazi.
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Overseen by bearish Danish Sergeant Rasmussen (Møller), who is in turn overseen by a British colonel, the soldiers are given a basic rundown on what types of mines they’re likely to encounter and how to defuse and discard them. In this Oscar-nominated Danish production, these young Germans, 12 of them, have been tasked by the Allies with removing 45,000 of the estimated 2 million land mines that their Nazi occupiers buried in the sand in preparation for an invasion that never came. Most of them were just forcibly conscripted young boys, as Germany’s more battle-hardened soldiers were long depleted. In May of 1945, the sandy beaches along the western coast of Denmark were crawling with defeated Nazi troops.