![]() Human emotions which cannot be played down but can be explained by the trauma of World War Two. The Dane himself has probably suffered great misery during the war, caused by the Germans. ![]() We continuously see the sergeant wrestling with his conscience: from hate to compassion and vice versa. His tone becomes harsher again when he sees his dog dying from a not yet cleared mine. As the movie proceeds, we see Rasmussen become more lenient, He fetches food for the German child soldiers and plays football with them. It clearly emerges from the movie: small insults, name calling and physical violence. This exhaustion could cause a decrease in powers of concentration, sometimes with fatal consequences.Ī Danish sergeant, Carl Rasmussen is to see that the mines are cleared by the child soldiers. The men clearing the mines were often undernourished, emaciated and exhausted. The movie paints a realistic picture of the circumstances under which this took place. Without tools or state of the art equipment, the Germans had to clear mines with their bare hands. This Danish movie describes how German prisoners-of-war, child soldiers, had to clear mines on the Danish coast, an extremely dangerous operation. German soldiers had laid thousands of mines on beaches and in dunes to protect the coasts of Europe against possible attacks by the Allies. ![]() At the end of the war in 1945 and right after, German mines and bombs lay scattered everywhere in Europe and also on the Danish coast. Some war movies are highly original as to themes and "Land of Mine" (2016) is exactly that. Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman. United States (1776 - present, Republic).Soviet Union (1922-1991, Socialist Republic).Northern Rhodesia (1924-1964,British Protectorate).Netherlands, the (1815-present, Kingdom).Canada (1931-present, Constitutional Monarchy).Belgium (1830-present, Constitutional Monarchy).Australia (1901-present, Federal Monarchy). ![]()
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