Land of Mine vs The Volunteers: To the War

Land of Mine has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 5.8/10 for The Volunteers: To the War). Land of Mine is the shorter watch at 1h 40m compared with 2h 21m. Land of Mine is the older of the two (2015 against 2023). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Land of Mine posterLand of Mine2015 VS The Volunteers: To the War posterThe Volunteers: To the War2023
Land of MineThe Volunteers: To the War
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 5.8/10
Year20152023
Length1h 40m2h 21m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, War
CountryGermany–
DirectorMartin ZandvlietChen Kaige
Main castLouis Hofmann, Roland Møller, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Joel Basman, Laura BroZhang Ziyi, Xin Baiqing, Huang Xiaoming, Zhu Yawen, Zhang Zifeng

Synopsis

Land of Mine

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

The Volunteers: To the War

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, New China was faced with "internal and external troubles". Since the outbreak of the Korean Civil War, the U.S. military has repeatedly provoked the border between China and North Korea, and civilians have been brutally bombed. In order to maintain the hard-won peace and long-term stability for generations, in October 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteers entered North…

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