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Denmark was mined more than any other European country. After invading Denmark, the Germans planted hundreds of thousands of mines along the Danish coast in anticipation of an Allied invasion that never took place. Land of Mine is unquestionably manipulative, generating nerve-wracking tension as the fresh-faced, naive young men crisscross the sand, nervously unscrewing detonators. LAND OF MINE tells a heartbreaking and thought provoking story set at the end of World War II in Denmark. Inevitably he experiences a change of heart toward his charges as some perish in accidental explosions, becoming especially protective of the most sensitive boy (Louis Hofmann), who helps rescue a little girl wandering into the minefield. Promised safe conduct back to Germany if they survive, the group serves under an initially contemptuous Danish sergeant (Roland Møller) who shows little concern about whether they live or die. The eldest appear to be in their mid-teens. Young German prisoners of war are assigned to defuse mines buried along the West Coast of Denmark. The film is set in 1945, the immediate aftermath of the war.
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After the war, the Danes decided that German POWs should be conscripted to clear the beaches, and the film dramatizes the three months that a group of teens who were drafted in the war's waning days spent probing a swath of coast, using iron rods to locate and defuse the bombs. This years nominee was Land of Mine, a gut-wrenching Danish-German drama written and directed by Martin Zandvliet. Writer-director Martin Zandvliet's Oscar-nominated foreign drama centers on the millions of land mines that the Nazis buried along Denmark's western coast in mistaken anticipation of an Allied invasion.