The Guilty
2018 · Movie · R · 85 min · ★ 7.3 · 91% critics
A police officer demoted to desk duty takes calls as an emergency dispatcher, but a panicked report from a woman claiming to have been kidnapped throws everything into a high-stakes race against time. Confined to the police station and reliant on the phone, he scrambles to piece together what’s happening and get help.
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Details
- Original title
- Den skyldige
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-02-22
- Language
- Danish
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Critic score
- 91/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (1,850 votes)
- Box office
- $4,598,051
About
You’ll like this tense, room-bound thriller if you enjoy psychological suspense built from urgent conversations and limited surroundings; Not for you if slow, one-location stories like Locke or A Hijacking sound too restrictive.
Pros: claustrophobic tension; gripping phone calls; strong lead performance | Cons: slow start; mostly one setting; divisive voice acting
Themes
- police officer
- police station
- cellular phone trace
- phone call
- suspended cop
- emergency
- desk work
- alarm dispatch
Awards & recognition
- IFFR audience award · 2018
- Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award – Best Foreign Feature Film · 2018
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2019 · nominated
- European Film Award — European Discovery of the Year · 2018 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Screenwriter · 2018 · nominated
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- European Film Award — Best Actor · 2018 · nominated
Cast & crew
Jakob Cedergren
as Asger Holm
Jessica Dinnage
as Iben (voice)
Omar Shargawi
as Rashid (voice)
Johan Olsen
as Michael (voice)
Jacob Lohmann
as Bo (voice)
- KE
Katinka Evers-Jahnsen
as Mathilde (voice)
Jeanette Lindbæk
as North Zealand Shift Chief (voice)
Simon Bennebjerg
as Junkie (voice)
Laura Bro
as Journalist (voice)
Morten Suurballe
as Man at Skælbækgade Street (voice)
Directed by Gustav Möller