Excellent, a Must See

Brilliant and touching

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Best not to think about it?That's a horrible last act.The Lieutenant is concerned the Sergeant is softening.I understand the anger but humiliating people does not keep the world peaceful.Oh $hit.... No. That is worse than I suspected.I'd walk farther behind.The Sergeant is not perfect, but he is a wise human.OH $$$HH!!!! I jumped outa my chair.Great music for the non-dialog scenes.

Land of Mine is about Nazi soldiers who are so young some seem to be 14 years old. World World II ends and the Nazi soldiers who victimized the Danes are now being victimized by the Danes by the loss of the war. This shows how absurd war is. There are beautiful shots of long beaches filled with smooth looking orange sand. But the sandy beaches are covered with land mines. The Nazi soldiers who are POW's now are forced to dismantle the land mines. This movie played on my conscious. While I watched the movie, I was wondering if the Nazi soldiers POW's did not need to be released as the war was over. This movie was disturbing to me because I do not believe in the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Yes, the Nazi soldiers had a history of being terrible to the Danes; then after the war ended some Danes (like in this movie) became visibly terrible to the former Nazi's. This kind of behaviour makes my stomach turn - as each group suffered at the hand of an aggressor. In a way this movie shows the worse side of humanity. There were pieces of kindness scattered through the film - but in essence - it appeared like many generals in charge practiced their authority in a corrupt way.

I found this by complete accident on youtube, and was enthralled by the first scene, enough to continue and watch the entire 2 hours.Apparently, when WW2 ended, a small-ish number of German Prisoners Of War were kept by Denmark for the sole job of removing landmines, mostly as a punishment for their previous occupation of their land. The job involved laying on your belly and tapping the ground with a spike, to find a mine, and then manually disarming it. Not an easy job, and in fact about half of those put to it, either died or suffered grevious wounds.On top of all that, most of these POWs were teenagers, mostly last- minute conscripts from the Hitler Youth, forced into the war as a last ditch effort to try to win against the allies.Land of Mine is a 2015 film (of which i completely ignored the existence until just now) entirely in German, although subtitles are available, detailing the fate of one group of said children, and of their Danish instructor/warden, as they learn the dangerous job of hand-disarming live explosives, all the while trying to figure out why they are there. Now, Land of Mine is a masterfully well made film; the acting is excellent, the production is likewise top notch, and the soundtrack particularly moving; but ..It's long. It's dark. It's more than a bit depressing. This is not an easy film to watch. It will force you to ponder the horrors of war, without ever giving you a rest, a hero to admire, a victory to share. Here, war is about loss, not victory.I am not sure i can recommend this film. But if you have a friend or two who think war is cool because you shoot bad guys, then show them this film, it will change their mind.my vote will be only 7/10. it's good, but it's hard.

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