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Oct 01, 2018alexibarra rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Understandably, few movies attempt to humanize German soldiers during WWII. "Land of Mine" is one of that dares to ask if later generations are to be held accountable for the hatred launched by their parents. As German troops leave occupied Denmark, a small contingent of soldiers is sent to work under Danish command in the (criminal under the Geneva Convention) task of clearing the beach of land mines. But these soldiers are teenagers, barely men, born during the war and with no combat experience but for one. You see them being subject to justifiable Danish hate as they lay on the sand, probing with rods until a mine is detected, and holding their breaths as they defuse them, their lives depending on it. What are they to the Danish Sergeant in charge, boys eager to finish their mission and be able to return home or just "Germans"?