![]() ![]() ![]() In May of 1945, German POWs in Denmark were put to work extracting the 1.5 million of their own land mines from the Danish west coast. Continuing to elicit grand central performances from his well-cast actors, Zandvliet’s handsome production of a continually examined historical period manages the difficulty of overcoming considerable expectations while revisiting the less defined period of initial reconstruction. No stranger to the darker sides of conflicted human nature, the Danish director transplants his simmering tensions to even more dramatically potential plateaus, beginning with his purposeful title, a play on words concerning liberated countries, blurred borders, tyrannical tactics, and the explosive devices of war. Martin Zandvliet leaves behind the world of theater for his third feature, Land of Mine, a based on fact account of German POWs in post-WWII Denmark. Enemy Mine: Zandvliet Explores the Casualties of War
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