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Over half of the POWS would die or suffer injury removing the mines.īut this film is about more than watching the Germans being forced to risk their lives on the beaches of Denmark. This enormous number of mines were buried in anticipation of a possible Allied invasion of Denmark. The simple story is based upon what happened to German POWs in Denmark at the end of WWII: 2000 of these prisoners were put to work clearing Denmark’s beaches of over 2,000,000 land mines placed there by German soldiers then occupying the country. The film directed by Asghar Farhadi* must be extremely good, because it was chosen over “The Land of Mine,” which I would put forward as undeniable proof to any and all skeptics that great films are still being made. A rare exception was Academy Award winning, Hungarian-made, “ Son of Saul” released in 2015.Ī German-Danish film, “ The Land of Mine,” was nominated this year for Best Foreign Film but lost to “ The Salesman,” an Iranian production. The highly-praised films I read about rarely achieve wide release in the US, and can be seen only when released on DVD or Blu-ray or on a streaming channel, such as, ,, or. I read film magazines such as Sight & Sound, Cineaste, and Film Comment, and check in regularly with websites such as and. There’s a much larger world of movies that, if you are interested, you must seek out to find. Those who complain must be paying attention only to what’s showing at the local cinema. I grow weary of hearing people say, “They don’t make good movies anymore.” Good, even great, films are released each year, but are shown in only a few movie theaters in the US.