Land of Mine

Denmark’s use of teenage German POWs to clear land mines makes for searing, timely drama.

2879d ago

Denmark’s use of teenage German POWs to clear land mines makes for searing, timely drama.

2879d ago

Denmark’s use of teenage German POWs to clear land mines makes for searing, timely drama.

2879d ago

A little-remembered chapter from WWII's immediate aftermath in Denmark is dramatized in this potent and accomplished feature.

2879d ago

Danish director Martin Zandvliet dramatizes a fascinating World War II story about German prisoners put to work defusing land mines along the coast of Denmark.

2879d ago

The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story.

2879d ago

Comparisons to The Hurt Locker are unavoidable given the subject matter, but Land of Mine is the better film, and quite possibly an instant classic. Zandvilet, who also wrote the script, inserts small moments of humanity throughout what is easily the most nerve-racking, intense film of the year thus far.

2879d ago

Again and again, its stark and suspenseful compositions strike the eye — figures in dark clothing, prone on a pale beach, with lines of wire, black warning flags, and the chill gray waves beyond.

2879d ago

Danish director Martin Zandvliet dramatizes a fascinating World War II story about German prisoners put to work defusing land mines along the coast of Denmark.

2879d ago

Again and again, its stark and suspenseful compositions strike the eye — figures in dark clothing, prone on a pale beach, with lines of wire, black warning flags, and the chill gray waves beyond.

2879d ago

Danish director Martin Zandvliet dramatizes a fascinating World War II story about German prisoners put to work defusing land mines along the coast of Denmark.

2879d ago

The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story.

2879d ago

A little-remembered chapter from WWII's immediate aftermath in Denmark is dramatized in this potent and accomplished feature.

2879d ago

After World War II, young German POWs must clear Nazi landmines from Denmark’s west coast with their bare hands.

2879d ago

The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story.

2879d ago

After World War II, young German POWs must clear Nazi landmines from Denmark’s west coast with their bare hands.

2879d ago

Again and again, its stark and suspenseful compositions strike the eye — figures in dark clothing, prone on a pale beach, with lines of wire, black warning flags, and the chill gray waves beyond.

2879d ago

A little-remembered chapter from WWII's immediate aftermath in Denmark is dramatized in this potent and accomplished feature.

2879d ago

Comparisons to The Hurt Locker are unavoidable given the subject matter, but Land of Mine is the better film, and quite possibly an instant classic. Zandvilet, who also wrote the script, inserts small moments of humanity throughout what is easily the most nerve-racking, intense film of the year thus far.

2879d ago

After World War II, young German POWs must clear Nazi landmines from Denmark’s west coast with their bare hands.

2879d ago

Comparisons to The Hurt Locker are unavoidable given the subject matter, but Land of Mine is the better film, and quite possibly an instant classic. Zandvilet, who also wrote the script, inserts small moments of humanity throughout what is easily the most nerve-racking, intense film of the year thus far.

2879d ago

When we first see Sgt. Rasmussen (Roland Møller) in the opening moments of the Danish drama “Land of Mine,” he’s driving along in a Jeep with a look that recalls Woody’s Harrelson’s derelict cop at the opening of “Rampart”—jut-jawed, determined, a fierce, unforgiving gleam in his eye.

2879d ago

When we first see Sgt. Rasmussen (Roland Møller) in the opening moments of the Danish drama “Land of Mine,” he’s driving along in a Jeep with a look that recalls Woody’s Harrelson’s derelict cop at the opening of “Rampart”—jut-jawed, determined, a fierce, unforgiving gleam in his eye.

2879d ago

When we first see Sgt. Rasmussen (Roland Møller) in the opening moments of the Danish drama “Land of Mine,” he’s driving along in a Jeep with a look that recalls Woody’s Harrelson’s derelict cop at the opening of “Rampart”—jut-jawed, determined, a fierce, unforgiving gleam in his eye.

2879d ago

Mr. Zandvliet is less interested in the stark battle between good and evil than in the shifting ground of power and responsibility, and the way that every person carries the potential for decency and depravity.

2879d ago

Mr. Zandvliet is less interested in the stark battle between good and evil than in the shifting ground of power and responsibility, and the way that every person carries the potential for decency and depravity.

2879d ago

Mr. Zandvliet is less interested in the stark battle between good and evil than in the shifting ground of power and responsibility, and the way that every person carries the potential for decency and depravity.

2879d ago

During the Second World War, the Nazi army planted two million land mines all along the beaches of Denmark. It was in anticipation of an Allied invasion along that route that never happened. In the aftermath of the war, German POWs were forced to clear the coast of all the bombs buried under the sand.

2879d ago

During the Second World War, the Nazi army planted two million land mines all along the beaches of Denmark. It was in anticipation of an Allied invasion along that route that never happened. In the aftermath of the war, German POWs were forced to clear the coast of all the bombs buried under the sand.

2879d ago

During the Second World War, the Nazi army planted two million land mines all along the beaches of Denmark. It was in anticipation of an Allied invasion along that route that never happened. In the aftermath of the war, German POWs were forced to clear the coast of all the bombs buried under the sand.

2879d ago

The film is sometimes too sentimental, too predictable in its drift, but electric in individual moments.

2879d ago

The film is sometimes too sentimental, too predictable in its drift, but electric in individual moments.

2879d ago

The film is sometimes too sentimental, too predictable in its drift, but electric in individual moments.

2879d ago

Land of Mine’s fitful jolts of suspense can’t compensate for the screenplay’s wholly familiar trajectory.

2879d ago

Land of Mine’s fitful jolts of suspense can’t compensate for the screenplay’s wholly familiar trajectory.

2879d ago

Land of Mine’s fitful jolts of suspense can’t compensate for the screenplay’s wholly familiar trajectory.

2879d ago