Land of Mine

Dec 3, 2015

1h 40m

★ 7.8

They survived the second World War, now they must survive the cleanup

Overview

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Genres

War

Drama

History

Production Companies

Nordisk Film Denmark

Amusement Park Films

Majgaard

K5 International

K5 Film

ZDF

Goethe Filmproduktion

Erfttal Film

Land of Mine Trailers

Cast

Sgt. Carl Rasmussen

Roland Møller

Sebastian Schumann

Louis Hofmann

Lt. Ebbe Jensen

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Helmut Morbach

Joel Basman

Karin

Laura Bro

Ludwig Haffke

Oskar Bökelmann

Ernst Lessner

Emil Belton

Werner Lessner

Oskar Belton

Wilhelm Hahn

Leon Seidel

Manfred

Karl Alexander Seidel

August Kluger

Maximilian Beck

Rudolf Selke

August Carter

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