Synopse
May 1945. The Second World War is over. The beaches of Denmark are studded with more than two million land mines buried by German troops. These are now to be cleared by German POWs, mostly ex-members of the German Volkssturm, very young and very old men pressed into service by the Nazis in the final months of the war and neither trained nor equipped to clear mines. Sebastian (Louis Hofmann), Wilhelm (Leon Seidel), Helmut (Joel Basman) and Albert (Levin Henning) are part of a group of 12 boys trying to survive this dangerous undertaking. They crawl along the beach, poking sticks into the sand and digging the mines out with their hands. Every move could be their last. Unter dem Sand is a tense thriller about a little-known chapter of German-Danish post-war history.
Regie
MARTIN ZANDVLIET won several prizes for his debut film Applause (FILMFEST HAMBURG 009). This was followed by the equally successful Dirch (2011) and Teddy Bear (2012).
Info
Original Title: Under sandet
International Title: Land of Mine
Category: Feature
Section: Freihafen
Version & Subtitles: Danish, German OV with German subtitles
Director: Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Screenplay: Martin Zandvliet
Cast/Protagonists: Roland Møller, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Louis Hofmann, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel
Production country: Denmark, Germany
Year of Production: 2015
Length: 100 min
Producer: Malte Grunert, Mikael Chr. Rieks
Production company: Nordisk Film Production, Amusement Park Films, Koch Media GmbH, Danish Film Institute
Cinematography: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen
Editor: Per Sandholt, Molly Malene Stensgaard
Music: Sune Martin
Production Design: Gitte Malling
World Sales: K5 International
Distributor: Koch Films GmbH
