To me, it’s important to live, to be who I am and then to get out of that, because when you play a role, it’s always a bit of yourself. I have finished school and so it’s becoming a real job, and as an actor, you cannot always just play roles. Louis Hofmann (LH): I agree with both Martin and Joel, but I think it’s also important to not only talk about the work. I don’t have a problem when my director says: “Don’t do it like this I want it like this.” But generally in life, I like to do what I want, and for me the best way is through acting and making films. I always had a problem doing things that I didn’t want to do.
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There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it’s the pure satisfaction of doing what you really want. Right now I can say that I can more or less live from this and it’s nicer than I could have imagined for my life.
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Of course, that wasn’t the thought when I was 13 - to be free and do what you really want. I’m now 25 and for me, it was the best way to get to know myself. I have never fitted into a normal school nor a working life, and I have been acting since I was 13. This project was something that you did because you wanted to be a part of telling the world a story that people maybe don’t know about, or that they haven’t seen from this point of view before. Of course, as an actor, there are some things that you do that you try to forget about, but that’s part of the job. Joel Basman (JB): I totally agree with Martin that you want to do movies that you are proud of - telling a story that you want to tell, not a story that you are forced to.
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It should be a story that deserves to be told because it gives me something. I might do 15 movies in my lifetime if I’m lucky, and I would like to be proud of all of them - to look back at my legacy and say: “I chose well I did something that I felt was important.” And if possible to never sell out and make films for the money. Martin Zandvliett (MZ): As a director you don’t make a lot of movies, but as an actor, you do a hell of a lot of movies. Why a creative career? Was there an inspirational or defining moment?
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They also discuss the filmmaking process and its ability to create a greater sense of self-awareness, and the difficulty of separating a film from its authors both in front of and behind the camera. In conversation with PopMatters, Zandvliet and Møller, alongside Joel Basman and Louis Hofmann, two of the young cast-members who play POW’s Helmut Morbach and Sebastian Schumann, reflected on their individual creative aspirations and the beginnings of the film that forged their collaboration. Instead, the film, which is unafraid of asking uncomfortable questions, explores the complexity of human emotion and morality within this tragic chapter of history, where hate and anger, friend and adversary, past and future bleed into one another. Zandvliet and his cast craft a piece of filmmaking with a mature historical perspective that refrains from simplifying the morality of its characters. Planted by the German forces during the occupation these young prisoners of war are promised their freedom and safe return to Germany once they have diffused and removed all two million of the mines. Land of Mine is the story of the relationship between a young group of German prisoners of war and veteran Danish Sergeant Carl Rasmussen (Roland Møller) who is tasked with clearing the western coast of Denmark of its two million mines. Martin Zandvliet’s Second World War set drama, Land of Mine casts its eye on a forgotten chapter of history, which delivers an unsettling reminder that innocence and morality are bloodied even after the fighting has ceased.