Danish historical drama about a group of german prisoners clearing the danish coastline of live landmines. In post wwii denmark, a group of young german prisoners of war are forced to clear, with their bare hands, the danish coastline of millions of live landmines, originally planted by the nazis under hitlers orders, under the watch of a danish sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their terrifying and suicidally dangerous plight. Rasmussen, a grizzled and brutal danish army sergeant who oversees a work party of teenage german conscripts, is utterly contemptuous of them at first. Slowly, as relationships are formed and developed, he sees them as human beings instead of machines.   what the press said a tough, well made war movie sometimes shockingly violent about a little known and very grim moment at the end of the second world war. Guardian   running time 101 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 9 oct. 2017