JOEL BASMAN

LAND OF MINE (2017)
Starring Roland MØller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Emil Belton and Oskar Belton. Directed by Martin Zandvliet.

In the days following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, a group of German soldiers – most barely out of their teens – are put to work by their Allied captors. With minimal training, they are sent to locate and disarm their own hidden weapons that still litter the beaches along Denmark’s west coast, under the supervision of a righteous and embittered Danish sergeant, Rasmussen. Scornful of the Germans for their five-year occupation of his country, and intent on punishing what’s left of their army, he ruthlessly marches his squad out on the dunes each day to prod for mines. Yet this risky task soon challenges even Rasmussen, who grows more and more conflicted in his feelings toward his young charges.

REVIEWS Land Of Mine - Buried atrocities