Who else would have done it, one might ask, and the question is asked in the Danish discussion after the premiere in his home country for a half a year ago. But director Martin Zandvliet concern is fairly obvious that a military victory is not the same as a moral victory, and the Danish resistance fighters were killed during the war, one is not necessarily quits by sending boys in certain death, much as they belong to the enemy . The matter is the furthermore more complicated that way, but Zandvliet tells the story very conventional, with emotional pressure points evenly throughout the action. That’s not to say that the story is not good.
A frightened, small cluster German soldiers put under the command of Sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Møller), already from the first scene has demonstrated to us that he enters the role of the superior with large and brutal intensity. He locks the boys inside a shed at night and fetch food only for themselves and the dog – it is only when a mine goes off because one of the soldiers is bent and throws up his own stomach acid that soldiers get something to eat.
So we sense anyway that Rasmussen’s hard outer has small cracks that leads into something resembling humanity, and eventually get the Germans come forward with their respective personalities. But Rasmussen is also part of a hierarchy, where those with power are not located close to demining, but tucked both mentally and physically from where the challenge is not trimmed and clear.
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