Fails the Bechdel test
Land of Mine
2015. Directed by Martin Zandvliet, written by Martin Zandvliet.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
0 / 3
Fails
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No
1. At least two women
Fewer than two women characters. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Not rated bechdeltest.com readers haven't rated this film.
The film
In post-World War II Denmark, the Danish government puts their hated German prisoners of war to work clearing the 1.5 million landmines from the western beaches of the country. At one such beach, Sgt. Carl Leopold Rasmussen finds himself in charge of one such labor unit and finds they are largely all inexperienced boys. As the boys struggle to complete and survive their dangerous work, Sgt. Rasmussen's hate for Germans gradually cools as he grows to understand the horrific situation these child soldiers are in even as the mines claim more and more victims.
- Released
- 03 Dec 2015
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 7.8 / 10
- Metascore
- 75 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 33 wins & 27 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Carl 160 lines, man
- Ebbe 90 lines, man
- Sebastian 87 lines, man
- Helmut 53 lines, man
- Lm 28 lines
- Werner 26 lines, man
- Ludvig 22 lines, man
- Wilhelm 19 lines, man
- Everyone 14 lines
- Karin 14 lines, woman
Full cast, 23 people
- Roland Møller as Sgt. Carl Rasmussen
- Louis Hofmann as Sebastian Schumann
- Mikkel Boe Følsgaard as Lt. Ebbe Jensen
- Joel Basman as Helmut Morbach
- Laura Bro as Karin
- Oskar Bökelmann as Ludwig Haffke
- Emil Belton as Ernst Lessner
- Oskar Belton as Werner Lessner
- Leon Seidel as Wilhelm Hahn
- Karl Alexander Seidel as Manfred
- Maximilian Beck as August Kluger
- August Carter as Rudolf Selke
- Tim Bülow as Hermann Marklein
- Alexander Rasch as Friedrich Schnurr
- Julius Kochinke as Johann Wolff
- Aaron Koszuta as Gustav Becker
- Levin Henning as Albert Bewer
- Mads Riisom as Peter
- Mette Lysdahl as Nurse Lone Nielsen
- Johnny Melville as Officer Givens
- Anthony Straeger as Officer Garth
- Magnus Bruun as Danish Soldier
- Michael Asmussen as Danish Sergeant
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 12% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 100
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 13 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 86 |
| 13 to 15 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 to 18 | 3 | 31 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 47 |
| 22 to 24 | 0 | 18 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 to 30 | 0 | 24 |
| 31 to 33 | 5 | 15 |
| 34 to 36 | 0 | 23 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 13 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 1 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 13 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 3 |
| 49 to 51 | 6 | 10 |
| 52 to 54 | 0 | 7 |
| 55 to 57 | 0 | 5 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 9 |
| 61 to 63 | 0 | 3 |
| 64 to 66 | 0 | 57 |
| 67 to 69 | 0 | 12 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 3 |
| 73 to 75 | 0 | 30 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 16 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 15 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 to 87 | 1 | 7 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 14 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 0 |
| 94 to 96 | 2 | 23 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 to 100 | 0 | 7 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 3 are women's.
17 lines from women, 512 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
2 women and 19 men in the cast. 1 women and 25 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 114 of 603.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 192 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 4% of the words (197), men 96% (5,152). Women have 3% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
46
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 12 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 30% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Martin Zandvliet (man)
- Written by
- Martin Zandvliet (man)
- Produced by
- Malte Grunert (man), Mikael Chr. Rieks (man)
- Shot by
- Camilla Hjelm Knudsen (woman)
- Edited by
- Per Sandholt (man), Molly Malene Stensgaard (woman)
- Music by
- Sune Martin (man)
- Production design by
- Gitte Malling (gender not listed)
- Costumes by
- Stefanie Bieker (woman), Claudia Maria Braun (gender not listed)
- Cast by
- Simone Bär (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Production
3 women, 3 men, 7 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
3 women, 1 men, 5 not listed
-
Other crew
0 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
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Sound
0 women, 4 men, 5 not listed
-
Art
0 women, 2 men, 3 not listed
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Camera
1 women, 2 men, 2 not listed
-
Directing
1 women, 2 men, 1 not listed
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Editing
1 women, 1 men
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 42 on average. Men: 23 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Laura Bro 42
Men
Emil Belton 16, Oskar Belton 16, Louis Hofmann 18, Oskar Bökelmann 18, Leon Seidel 19, Karl Alexander Seidel 20, Joel Basman 25, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard 31, Roland Møller 43
Exhibit G: the money
What it cost and made, where TMDB lists it.
- Budget
- $5.1 million
- Box office
- Not listed
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 100 scenes and 603 lines of dialogue. How the test works
