AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

manayupa Harmless, innocent Germans caught in the midst of this bad bad war. Lost, misunderstood and mistreated. Poor things. What a touching story to tell. Technical masterpiece with brilliant actor play I must admit, but a clear attempt to clean wash Germans. The same Germans repeatedly responsible for world conflicts, who exterminated by burning and starving to death children much younger than these hobbledehoys by the thousands. This nation deserves no consolation, nor any kind of compassion. Similarly a picture suggesting that Denmark actually did something during 2nd World War. They've practically surrendered their country to Germans with not one gun shot. Poles defended each inch of their country with their blood, and with no support from any of European countries watching from the distance. Later they've continued to fight Germans supporting other countries all over Europe, even as far as Africa. For which effort btw. Great Britain and USA gave them out to Russians communists on a silver platter. It seems to me that Danes got themselves a pretty good deal. Not many other countries that didn't lift a finger to stop Germans got themselves leftovers from their army to clean up. It's just a funny little story of children playing war far from the real horrors in Europe.

apple_b-29288 The story is full of pathos, hungry boys, dogs, a little kid in danger saved by the boys, mean Allied soldiers treating the poor sweet Nazi wunderkidden badly (pardon my poor german)... what a load of crapWhat the movie fails to mention is that those same boys in many cases laid the millions of mines that the Allies forced them to remove... And as to the "starving" sweet boys, they were German Soldiers, who killed mercilessly millions of civilian Danes, Dutch, French, Norse, Poles, Russians, etc not to mention the millions murdered in the Concentration Camps where they attempted to exterminate the Jewish Race, the final solution politely called the Holocaust... So spare me the sad tale of young German soldiers forced to clean up the mess they created. Save your time and money, watch anything else... test pattern, static, cat videos...

A Best not to think about it?That's a horrible last act.The Lieutenant is concerned the Sergeant is softening.I understand the anger but humiliating people does not keep the world peaceful.Oh $hit.... No. That is worse than I suspected.I'd walk farther behind.The Sergeant is not perfect, but he is a wise human.OH $$$HH!!!! I jumped outa my chair.Great music for the non-dialog scenes.

Lee Eisenberg We've heard many stories about the Nazis' cruelty. Less is known about an event that took place right after WWII ended. The Nazis had planted a number of land mines along Denmark's coast, and Denmark made a bunch of German POWs clear the coast of the land mines. Martin Zandvliet's "Under sandet" ("Land of Mine" in English) shows how the Danish sergeant overseeing the removal of the mines is often as draconian towards the young Germans as the Nazis were to everyone.In addition to showing this particular historical instance, the movie shows that every person has the potential to be cruel, even towards those associated with cruelty. Many of these young Germans were probably drafted into Hitler's army, but were then seen as agents of evil, so people felt justified in mistreating them. In dealing with those who were previously "the enemy", can we ever consider them something other than the enemy?I recommend the movie. Many of the scenes showing the removal of the mines are intense just for the possibility of a mine exploding. But beyond that, it's an important part of history. Good one.