His next project is the British/German co-production Remainder, video artist Omer Fast's debut based on a novel by Tom McCarthy, starring Tom Sturridge. Turner, which premiered in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Most recently Grunert produced A Most Wanted Man, based on John Le Carré's novel and directed by Anton Corbijn, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe and Rachel McAdams. He also executive produced Mackenzie's "rock 'n roll romantic comedy" Tonight you're mine, filmed entirely on site at the T in the Park Festival. He has produced and co-produced 11 feature films to date, among them Perfect Sense, directed by David Mackenzie and starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. From 2006 until 2009, Grunert was head of the feature division at Studio Hamburg and went on to found Amusement Park Film in 2009. The dangerous task of clearing coastal minefields falls to a group of teenage German prisoners of war assigned to the bitter Sergeant Rasmussen.
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After attending law school at the FU in Berlin, he started out in the film industry producing documentaries, before moving into TV drama working for various companies including Bavaria Film and CLT UFA. Malte Grunert was born in 1967 in Berlin. The Danish Brigade was in charge of supervising and handling the operation.
The idea of using German prisoners of war to carry out the dangerous demining task came from British command, but was carried out with no objections from the Danish administration. As World War II comes to an end, a group of young German POWs are captured by the Danish army and forced to defuse and clear 2 million land mines from the. In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight. With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. The five-month demining process claimed more human lives than the entire length of German occupation in Denmark. Land of Mine: Directed by Martin Zandvliet. To this day, the events surrounding the demining of the Danish beaches are considered taboo in not only modern Danish history, but also European post-war history. In post-World War II Denmark, a group of. With Roland Mller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Flsgaard. Many of the German soldiers ordered to defuse more than two million mines along the Danish coastline were mere boys - only 15-18 years of age. Land of Mine: Directed by Martin Zandvliet. However, there is evidence that British and Danish commands deliberately changed the wording of the text from "prisoners of war" to "voluntarily surrendered enemy personnel" in order to sidestep the rules of the convention. Featuring arresting performances from the ensemble cast and breathtaking cinematography, Zandvliets sweeping drama makes for riveting and deeply-affecting cinema that demands to be seen on the big screen.The Geneva Convention of 1929 forbids forcing Prisoners of War to carry out hard labor or dangerous work. Yet as the days advance and he gets to know his young charges, especially the protective and pragmatic Sebastian (Louis Hofmann), Rasmussen grows more and more conflicted in his feelings, when compassion is the last thing his superiors wish to see extendedStories of conflict and its repercussions abound in cinema, but few have so eloquently focussed on the human connection between conflicts winners and the vanquished, and the emotional impact of occupation and nationalism. Academy Award Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film As World War Two comes to an end, a group of German POWs, boys rather than men, are captured by the. Scornful of the Germans for their five-year occupation of his country, the sergeant marches the boys out to the pristine dunes each day to perform this risky task. With minimal training, they are placed under the supervision of a righteous and embittered Danish sergeant, Rasmussen (played by the superb Roland Mller, A Hijacking), and sent to locate and disarm Hitlers munitions that still litter the beaches along Denmarks west coast. After the Nazi surrender in May 1945, a unit of young Germans most barely out of their teens are put to work by their Allied captors. Based on extraordinary true events, writer/director Martin Zandvliets multi award-winning historical drama follows a group of captured soldiers in Denmark in the immediate aftermath of WWII.