Land of Mine
Land of Mine (Danish: Under sandet, lit. 'Under the Sand') is a 2015 historical war drama film directed by Martin Zandvliet. It was shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected and nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.
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| Directed by | Martin Zandvliet |
| Screenplay by | Martin Zandvliet |
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| Cinematography | Camilla Hjelm Knudsen |
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| Music by | Sune Martin |
| Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Budget | DKK 35.5 million |
| Box office | DKK 22.4 million |
The film is inspired by real events when over 1.3m German landmines were cleared from Denmark's shores and fields from May to September 1945 and tells a story of German prisoners of war ordered to clear land mines after World War II. It is estimated that more than 2,000 soldiers including a number of teenagers, under the command of German officers, removed mines. 149 of them lost their lives during the five months of mine clearing, 165 were severely wounded and 167 lightly wounded. The removal was part of a controversial agreement between the German Commander General Georg Lindemann, the Danish Government and the British Armed Forces, under which German soldiers with experience in defusing mines would be in charge of clearing the mine fields.