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Story
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.
Director
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
Under sandet
Fiction Feature
Danish, German
Freihafen//FF2015
Denmark, Germany
2015
100 min
OV with German subtitles
Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Martin Zandvliet
Roland Møller, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Louis Hofmann, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel
Mikael Chr. Rieks, Malte Grunert
Camilla Hjelm Knudsen
Per Sandholt, Molly Malene Stensgaard
Sune Martin
Gitte Malling
Koch Films
K5 International
Nordisk Film Production; Amusement Park Films; Koch Media; Danish Film Institute
Lizette Gram Mygind, Danish Film Institute: lizetteg@dfi.dk
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