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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

War is a shameful thing. It is the condition of all humankind. It will never disappear as long as there is breath in a human body. This is a perfect psychological dissection of the human condition and its least desirable facet known as war. I think all people that have Pollyanna ideals of world peace should watch this. Sure what was done in the aftermath of WWII was horrible and a disgrace. The only sure thing which would have been infinitely worse was the alternative. Seeing how the German machine treated its fellow human beings during the war, is there any doubt that they would have changed direction had they won. Most cannot possibly imagine the world if Hitler and his minions had been victorious. The sanitized history taught in public schools worldwide doesn't give the full picture. We have to remember Hitler was stopped during this first phase. He never got to any of the later phases. This is a slice of history no one wants to examine. Hitler did draft children in the last days of the war. The criterion was if one could hold a gun steady, he was drafted. Children as young as 8 were made soldiers. This exposes the ever present question in the wake of devastating tragedy. Who is the real monster? Or who is the worse monster? Was it the German war machine for drafting children and putting them in harm's way during a war or the allies using the same children to "clean up" the mistakes of their defeated leaders? I encourage you to watch this movie and be starkly aware that you are looking at the triumphant good guys doing this to the defeated bad guys. Live with that for a while. I gave it 8 stars because it was very good, not near perfect and certainly not perfect. The principle actors were wonderful. The young guys were very believable to the painful resolution.

Not only was this right up my street it was one of the best films I have seen this year. Nominated at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year this is the story of a group of young German soldiers held as prisoners at the end of the war , who are ordered to dig up and disarm all of the Nazi land mines remaining on the west coast of Denmark. A Danish sergeant watches over the effort as the untrained soldiers attempt to complete their extremely dangerous punishment. It's probably not the best description to describe what I felt about this film but I really was was blown away. I has no idea about this part of World war II history and that the Germans planted over 1.2 million mines because they though the allies would land via Denmark and not France. This is beautifully written and filmed by Director Pieter Zandvliet and the acting from the group of young German actors is stunning. Sometimes moments of silence says more than words can and the silent moments say everything in this film wether it be when they are unarming the mines or when they are in fear of the sergeant. It's a very sad story that I'm sure the Danes are not proud of but I'm so glad it was told with such expertise.

(Flash Review)What could be worse than a long prison term? Here's one punishment; be forced to sweep vast beaches to uncover and disarm live mines post WWII. This is one of the rare films that attempts to make you feel compassion for Germans soon after WWII. As the film tells the true story of German POVs, many of them young boys in this film, that are forced to uncover thousands of mines that the German's buried in Denmark's beaches. These young soldiers are led by a Danish Sargent who hates all NAZI German soldier's guts. He teaches the boys how to dismantle the mines, map and count the mines and then enforce the objective. Being young and stupid boy soldiers, not the typical easy to hate NAZI commander type men, he does grow a bit of a heart for them. The film's focus was around the Sargent and the young POV's, their objective and of course the occasional accident. Very raw at times, it does scratch at your emotions but not as much as I'd imagine from such a hellish objective. Great cinematography with saturated and muted colors help drive the point home about many facets of humanity during a terrible and turbulent period in the world.

I lived in that part of Denmark 30 years after the war ended. Many people told me of the horrors of the German occupation. A legacy of this time was the hundreds of thousands of land mines the Germans left behind. How else were the Danes going to clear them? Should Danes be blown up in the process? No, they applied the rule: "You broke it - you fix it." Very sad for the young Germans, but this was war.Another film showing the futility of war. And yet we go on having wars - and that fool Trump will deliver in spades.