The Guilty (2018 film)
2018 film by Gustav Möller
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.
Plot
Asger Holm, a Copenhagen police officer grappling with personal emotions and tension as he awaits a hearing for his on-duty shooting incident that resulted in the death of a 19-year-old man, is temporarily assigned to answer emergency calls at the Emergency East desk.
On the eve of the hearing, he receives a cryptic call from a woman. The caller's name, Iben Østergård, flashes on the call handler's screen, a detail obtained from the mobile number record. Her tone is oddly gentle, as if she's speaking to a child, yet she does not indicate an emergency.
Initially about to dismiss the call as yet another late-night trivial caller, Asger senses that something is not quite right and intuitively begins to ask her yes-or-no questions; she discreetly reveals she has been abducted but explicitly mentions a white van, all before the call is abruptly disconnected.
Tracing the call to the nearest cell site, Asger calls the North Zealand station to tell them to look for a white van driving north.
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