This hugely tense and very moving drama (based on fact and Denmark's Best Foreign Film Oscar® contender) investigates what happened to the thousands of German POWs put to work defusing explosives on the coast of Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

After the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, a group of captured German youths were - counter to the agreements of the Geneva Convention - forced to risk their lives to find and diffuse 45,000 of the 1.5 million land mines that the German army had planted along the Denmark coast. This duty was enforced by the callous sergeant Rasmussen (Roland Møller), but as the post-war battleground gets ever bloodier, he finds himself at odds with his orders...

A harrowing and poignant look at life after war, this is a brilliant study of cruelty, revenge and retribution about a wilfully forgotten part of Danish history.

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