Archive of films Guilty / Den skyldige

Denmark
2018, 85 min

Section: Another View
Year: 2018

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? A procedural thriller drawing on the Scandi crime drama tradition, which dispenses with action scenes without sacrificing its adrenaline punch.

Synopsis

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.

Sandra Hezinová

About the director

Gustav Möller (b. 1988, Göteborg, Sweden). Filmography: In Darkness (I Mørke, 2015, short), The Guilty (Den skyldige, 2018)

Contacts

Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.aerofilms.cz

TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 368 687 88
Fax: +45 367 744 48
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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Another View

Director:	Gustav Möller
Screenplay:	Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Gustav Möller
Dir. of Photography:	Jasper J. Spanning
Music:	Carl Coleman, Caspar Hesselager
Editor:	Carla Luffe, Heintzelmann
Producer:	Lina Flint
Production:	Nordisk Film Spring, New Danish Screen
Cast:	Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi
Sales:	TrustNordisk
Distributor:	Aerofilms

Guests

Ivo Andrle

Distributor

Jakob Cedergren

Actor, Actor