Land of mine 2017
Land of Mine targets the head with its messy morality. Indeed, that’s the deal given to these POWs (who number less than a dozen): Rid the beach of all 45,000 mines - a task that will take about three months - and they’re free to return to Germany. In a just world, it would be members of the German high command who would have to manually defuse and dispose of all the mines – of course, this isn’t such a world, so those assigned the unenviable task are teenage boys who had nothing to do with the sickening strategy and who only want to return home to their moms. Since the Germans were the ones who placed the bombs there in the first place, it stands to reason that they should be the ones risking their lives to remove it (“Better them than us,” notes one Danish officer nodding in the direction of the lads). Set in the immediate aftermath of World War II, it centers on a group of German soldiers tasked with removing all 45,000 mines that were buried along a Danish coastline in anticipation of an allied invasion that ended up not occurring there.
LAND OF MINE 2017 MOVIE
Oskar Bökelmann and Louis Hofmann in Land of Mine (Photo: Sony Classics)Īn Academy Award nominee this year for Best Foreign Language Film, the Danish import Land of Mine is a movie that affects the stomach even more than the heart or the head.