Rather curiously, the film itself doesn’t say what its press notes spell out: under the international treaties of day as well as the 1949 Geneva Convention, this action-which was ordered by the British but carried out by the Danes-was a war crime. It involved using numerous German soldiers to clear hundreds of thousands of land mines that the Nazis had left buried along the Danish coast, resulting in the deaths of many. The punishment described by writer/director Martin Zandvliet in “Land of Mine,” though, is collective. ![]() Such a display of anger at the Nazi occupiers on the part of a Dane is understandable, but it’s only individual.
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