Rasmussen callously promises their freedom and release back to Germany when the task is complete but after initial hostility he slowly begins to sympathise with their plight. He takes advantage of the teenage POWs in his charge, ordering them to dig up the mines from the sand with their bare hands. Tough veteran sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Moller) is assigned by Lieutenant Ebbe Jensen (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) to defuse and remove two million mines on the Danish west coast to keep the beaches safe. "A deeply powerful, emotionally resonant account of a forgotten chapter in history." Inspired by real events, Land of Mine, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards, follows the little-known story of the young German prisoners of war who were handed over to Danish authorities in the days following Germany's surrender in May 1945.
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