![]() ![]() ![]() Overseen by bearish Danish Sergeant Rasmussen (Møller), who is in turn overseen by a British colonel, the soldiers are given a basic rundown on what types of mines they’re likely to encounter and how to defuse and discard them. In this Oscar-nominated Danish production, these young Germans, 12 of them, have been tasked by the Allies with removing 45,000 of the estimated 2 million land mines that their Nazi occupiers buried in the sand in preparation for an invasion that never came. Most of them were just forcibly conscripted young boys, as Germany’s more battle-hardened soldiers were long depleted. In May of 1945, the sandy beaches along the western coast of Denmark were crawling with defeated Nazi troops. ![]()
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