Land Of Mine - Sotto La Sabbia

Fa riflettere… quante persone hanno perso la vita per una guerra che nemmeno volevano! Soprattutto ragazzi poco più che adolescenti. Cosa abbiamo imparato da tutto ciò ?

A chi piacciono i film sugli artificieri

Marco Chevy

Recensito in Italia il 31 maggio 2023

Bel film ambientato in Danimarca a fine guerra, storia vera

Bel film,argomento raro da vedere

Ruggero

Recensito in Italia il 8 marzo 2023

Bel film anche se triste,consigliato

lorenz

Recensito in Italia il 3 gennaio 2023

Pochi film trattano della tematica Danese-tedesca del post guerra. buon film

LAND OF MINE -SOTTO LA SABBIA (blu ray)

maurizio

Recensito in Italia il 20 maggio 2017

Bellissimo film, ancorche' durissimo.E' un film da vedere per capire la brutalita' della guerra e le sue conseguenze.Tratto da una storia vera, e' un film toccante sulle colpe dei padri che ricadono sui figli.Un gruppo di giovanissimi soldati tedeschi, reclutati negli ultimi mesi della guerra, tra gli studenti ,si ritrovano prigionieri in Danimarca a dover sminare il territorio che i loro padri hanno minato in attesa dell'invasione che non ci fu.Ma la crudelta' e l'odio che i danesi riversano sui giovani tedeschi e' la sola conseguenza delle brutalita' che gli invasori nazisti hanno portato in giro per l'Europa, ancorche' i ragazzi che devono sminare non ne siano colpevoli...LE COLPE DEI PADRI RICADONO SUI FIGLI....purtroppo...a volte..cmq un bellissi mo film ben girato ed interpretato...non essendo una produzione holliwodiana e' passato sottotono nelle sale.

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Un film molto bello, una ricostruzione storica un po' approssimativa

Recensito in Italia il 6 settembre 2018

Il film è ottimo e commovente.
Ma la storia non è andata così: il comando degli artificieri era tedesco, non danese, secondo gli accordi di pace e nel rispetto della Convenzione di Ginevra.
I soldati tedeschi erano volontari e avevano libertà di movimento. I danesi esercitarono un controllo più serrato solo alla fine della operazioni di sminamento perché si resero conto che il lavoro non era accurato come richiesto negli accordi (vedi episodio della morte del cane). Queste informazioni sono desunte dalla critica danese.

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davide

Bel film

Recensito in Italia il 23 febbraio 2022

Bel film che raccontarle una parte di storia ai più sconosciuta

Recensito in Italia il 5 settembre 2021

Una storia scomoda da raccontare, intrisa di umanità,realismo e ben recitata. Un film poco conosciuto che in molti dovrebbero guardare.

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Simeon 'Sam' Hovey

Land of Mine

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 luglio 2019

This Danish made film is one of the best (new) early-post-WWII films I've seen in a long time. The film is about Denmark's use of German Prisoners Of War (POW) to remove the million plus landmines that the German Army (das Heer) buried along the coast of Denmark. When the film was released in Denmark it was titled Under sandet (Lit. Under the Sand). However, in the English renaming to Land of Mine is a bit of "in joke dark humor" to those who speak German because the German word for Mine is Mine (pronounced mean).

The film takes one liberty with history by placing a Dane army sergeant in charge of a platoon of German POW's use to remove the mines because in reality the German POW's were directed by their own sergeants. Although this device is used to show why this Dane, having endured and survived the Nazi occupation of his country, has no pity for what happens to the POW's.

Early on we see that there is a food shortage in Denmark which begins to effect the abilities of the POWs to safely dig up the mines. When their requests for food are denied they break into a nearby barn and eat what is left of what pigs just ate. [In German the word for pig is swine so it is an anti-Semitic insult to these POWs to be forced to eat what the pigs didn't.] Additionally, on the following day all of the POWs who ate the night before are very sick. When the Dane sergeant investigates he finds the war widow who owns the farm and asks her why they got so sick? His question makes her so happy that she tells him (a rough translation into English would be) "So I was finally able to get a Nazi!"

The film gives several choices for the language to pair with the video which includes English. I chose to listen in German with English subtitles, to which I can only say that the person who did the translations knows formal German but they don't understand the Germans of the WWII era.

Something unique in this film with brutal reality about one aspect of war is that they used older teens and very young men instead of the typical Hollywood film's more mature actors. I will finish by saying I have some small experience as an army sergeant and Vietnam and there were a few times during this film when I flinched.

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Jack E. Levic

THOUGHT PROVOKING MORALITY TALE OF A FORGOTTEN SIDE STORY OF WWII

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 23 giugno 2017

There have been countless WWII films through the years and it is always amazing to find a little known aspect of the brutal war. LAND OF MINE tells a heartbreaking and thought provoking story set at the end of World War II in Denmark. After invading Denmark, the Germans planted hundreds of thousands of mines along the Danish coast in anticipation of an Allied invasion that never took place. Denmark was mined more than any other European country.

After the war ended, it was decided that German prisoners of war would be forced to removed all of the mines before being allowed to go home.
Here is the tragedy of the story and a moral dilemma that has no answer. The Danes were angered and bitter with the Germans. Forcing the Germans to remove the mines might make sense but at a high moral cost. LAND OF MINE tells a fictionalized story of one Danish sergeant supervising a group of young German soldiers in a quest to clear on beach of mines. Most of these soldiers are teenagers who probably had little to do with the brutality of the war and only wanted to go home to their parents and loved ones.

The Sergeant is brutal and ruthless until he begins to see the everyday humanity in the soldiers who just want to go home. There is a beauty and sadness to diffusing any one of those mines would be fatal. It's a given that few, if any, of the young soldiers will survive.

Although this story is fiction, the facts are real. 70,000 German prisoner of war soldiers removed mines and facts are given as to how many survived and made it home. It's rare to see German WWII soldiers portrayed with compassion and as human beings just wanting to go home. We're seeing a different side of World War II in LAND OF MINE where the defeated German soldiers are now the victims. LAND OF MINE is an amazingly thought-provoking look at other consequences of war.

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Truewords

Movie hits hard in the feels and shows just how much horror many conscripted boys face in war

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 27 luglio 2017

I haven't seen a movie that hit me this hard since 'Stand By Me' and it's one of the few WW2 films that aren't all "muh evil Germans".

These Germans weren't evil, they were just boys conscripted into the war. But since they were "just" boys, no one really gave a shi+ about them and chose to see them as just more evil nazis. Never-mind that most of them were around 9 or 10 when the war started.

Anyway the film was great, extremely sad, but great. As mentioned above, it's not another evil Germans ww2 film. The story starts just after Germany surrenders. In Denmark there are over 2 million mines planted on the shore (where Germans were anticipating an invasion) that need cleaned up. Disgustingly, since even boys are seen as disposable, Denmark military chooses to use them to clean up the mines. Some gruesome and sad moments, the scenes that hit me the most are the one's with the brothers and the first boy who sets off a mine. The worst scene is about 30 minutes in.

It's also not low budget if anyone is worried about that. Sadly it didn't make nearly as much as it should have so I decided to buy it. Also, all of the one star reviews are raging that it's not in English. Yea...read the description before purchasing maybe? Don't give an excellent film that documents the horrors that many boys face in war, a one star review because you didn't read the description.

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Ronnie Bailey

Edge of your seat drama

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 14 febbraio 2021

Just finished watching this movie 5 minutes ago. This movie is astounding. I Thank film makers for telling the over millions of stories that took place during World War 2, that we dont hear to often about, and this is one of them. Was on the edge of my seat the whole time, worried about if a land mind would go off. I especially liked how the Sargent, when we first meet him, he is a hateful, vengeful, dont take crap from nobody type of guy, than we realize, he has a human side to him, and realize these aren't men, they are boys, who in hindsight in the 21st Century realize they were put in that situation, due to their Country and Fathers, and maybe because they were unlucky in being born at the wrong time in History. If you love the meanwhile back at the ranch, type of stories, that tell you the other horrors of the causes of World War 2 , you will love this movie.

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LORETA

Excelente pelicula!!!

Recensito in Messico il 27 ottobre 2019

Muy recomendable. Trama fluida y buenas actuaciones. Una historia diferente.
La dramática y conmovedora historia de un grupo de jóvenes soldados alemanes, casi niños, a quienes, tras su derrota en la guerra, les obligan las autoridades danesas, antes de liberarlos, a limpiar las playas de las temibles minas terrestres que sembró el Tercer Reich, condenándolos a una muerte o mutilación segura lo que lleva a la desesperación y al suicidio a algunos de ellos. La crueldad y desprecio por el enemigo se torna finalmente en compasión y este vuelve a humanizarse, al menos a los ojos de uno de sus verdugos: el Coronel Rasmussen. Solo de 4 de los 14 jóvenes que aborda la historia, basada en hechos reales, sobrevivieron. La película húngara Dear Elza, la que también recomiendo, trata en un parte sobre esto por parte de los rusos, quienes con gran sadismo apostaban a ver qué prisionero estallaba primero en su caminata, empujándolos y lanzándoles objetos con gran escarnio e indeferencia por sus vidas. En este sentido debe recordarse la gran labor de Lady D en su lucha contra la erradicación de este tipo de armas en todas las zonas de conflicto, las que continúan año con año matando y mutilando a cientos de personas en el mundo.

Hablada en alemán y subtítulos solo en inglés

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