Simply Perfect

hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Brutal and harrowing. Such a horrible story, but so beautifully realised. Definitely worth a watch.

Land of Mine is a very pleasant surprise. Essentially it is the story of a group of 14 teenagers ( I would guess between 13-16 years old), who were obviously conscripted to fight for the German army in a war that was already doomed. When they thought that once the conflict was over, they would be allowed to come home, but they forgot about the collective punishment season.I just watched this drama based on real events and got the feeling of how awful it is to be on the losing side of a war. Many people remember fondly victory parades, surrender declarations and peace agreements. This movie show us that cruelty, violence, desperation and misery didn't end in 1945. The horrors continued for many years, in this case, the German army demobilized without retreating to their home country, so hundreds of thousands soldiers were trapped in Denmark, and the local population and military was just eager to take some revenge. Normally we associate cruelty against POWs with the Soviet Union (a country that essentially killed all their prisoners in their concentration camps in Siberia), but "land of mine" portraits the western armies almost as ruthless as the Russians were.So the story of these 14 kids is that they are assigned suicide missions: they are supposed to clear giant minefields along the Danish coast, and if they don't die in the explosions, the other form of killing them was trough starvation and medical neglect. Essentially they had nothing to lose, but still, in the middle of such a hopeless life, they would cling to their humanity. Some would dream about coming home, seeing their mothers once again, while others were more realistic and understood that they were already dead, and there was no reason to be optimistic.They are led by Sargeant Rasmussen, a sadistic Danish Officer, who starts to feel lonely, and slowly start feeling some compassion about the boys, who are essentially paying for mistakes from the previous generations. Because one day he let them eat some bread, his superiors threaten him and go to the barracks in order to abuse them, reminding the sergeant that they are not people, but just disposable bodies who are useful to their task.I won't tell the end, but I recommend this movie because it is a history lesson and a lesson of humanity. Despite having politicians declaring war against each other, the ordinary people that supply soldiers for every army are just normal and enemies have a lot of common with each other (there is a scene in the movie that the sergeant even allow himself to enjoy some moments of pleasure playing soccer with his captives), so we shouldn't feel any pleasure when killing civilians or unarmed prisoners in any war, because they are human beings just like us.

Some of my favorite films have been Danish films and this gem did not disappoint! It is a poignant and sad portrayal of the continuing tragedy of war even after WW2 had ended. Young Germans are forced to remove German mines from Denmark but we understand that Denmark also was a victim by having it's beaches loaded with 1.2 million mines...and they had to be removed but how to remove them in a humane way? Man's inhumanity to man and what a powerful story this movie tells. I loved every moment of it.

This movie grabs you from the very first scene, when Sgt. Carl Rasmussen shouts at German war prisoners. I had no idea about WWII and the series of events shown in this movie were devastating. Gave me a fear down my spine. As the title suggests, 'Land of Mine' could be said by Germans for mining the land. And by Danish, for their rights on the land.If you are here to check the reviews, stop reading it and Watch the movie. This classic made me write the first review in IMDb.-Vignesh