“Land of Mine” is a 2015 Danish-German historical drama directed by Martin Zandvliet. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards.

The film is set in the strange, stressful time immediately following the end of the Second World War in Europe. It was inspired by real events in newly liberated Denmark during the period from May 1945 onwards and brings out the bitter resentment felt by some in formerly occupied territory. “Land of Mine” depicts how hundreds of German prisoners of war, many of them very young, were forced to clear and defuse land mines that had recently been laid by the occupying German forces along the western coast of Denmark. The technology of the time meant that most of this work had to be done by hand. A large proportion of the mine clearers were either killed or wounded.

The principal action recorded in “Land of Mine” 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 minefields.

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