The Guilty
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
- Den skyldige
- Denmark 2017
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- Czech
- 85 min.
- Accessible
Asger is finishing one of the many annoying duties at the police station when he gets a call from a kidnapped woman. Can he help her quickly and with strategic savvy? Less is sometimes more, and Gustav Möller’s feature debut is a wonderful example of this. In contrast to the norm for suspenseful, adrenaline-packed crime dramas, the filmmaker took the route of formal minimalism, keeping the camera inside the station the entire time. Thus the protagonist’s frustration at not being able to visit the crime scene is mirrored by the audience, which is left entirely voreto its own imaginative devices. And as this carefully-paced thriller demonstrates, our experience of the story is fundamentally determined by our fancy.
Read moreSundance Film Festival
2018 – Gustav Möller (Audience Award – World Cinema – Dramatic)
Rotterdam International Film Festival
2018 – Gustav Möller (IFFR Audience Award)
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
2019 – Gustav Möller, Lina Flint (Best Film)
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
2019 – Gustav Möller (Best Director)
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
2019 – Jakob Cedergren (Best Actor)
Danish Film Awards (Robert)
2019 – Jessica Dinnage (Best Supporting Actress)
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