![]() ![]() We meet him as he singles out a prisoner in a line of captured German soldiers and beats him to a pulp for taking home a Danish flag as a souvenir. ![]() The story focuses on a Danish officer assigned a small group of prisoners. ![]() Their unearthing of deadly explosives on a remote, pristine beach evokes a metaphor of repressed traumas and shameful peacetime forgetting. Obviously, the poignant aspect to this bloodletting, writ large in a film so connected to the tragedy of actual history, renders this a powerful anti-war statement.įorced into this heinous task, the characters are like lambs to the slaughter. The subsequent experience is not unlike watching a horror movie where, one by one, cast members meet a grisly end. ![]()
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