The Guilty (2018)

Original title

Den skyldige

Directed by

Gustav Möller

Genre

drama film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 1,856 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Copenhagen police officer named Asger Holm answers emergency calls while waiting for his own court hearing. He receives a call from a kidnapped woman and tries to save her using only his phone and radio.

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What happens

The Guilty (Danish: Den skyldige) is a 2018 Danish crime thriller film written by Gustav Möller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen and directed by Möller in his directorial debut. It premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was later selected as the Danish submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. The Guilty is a drama that unfolds entirely within the confines of an emergency call center, with Jakob Cedergren in the central role of Asger Holm, a distressed Copenhagen police officer with a pending court hearing for use of deadly force, who handles incoming 112 emergency calls. The tension and drama of the film are largely conveyed through the telephone conversations that Asger Holm engages in. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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