EditDen skyldige (2018)

Politibetjenten Asger Holm besvarer et 112 opkald fra en kidnappet kvinde. Da forbindelsen pludselig bliver afbrudt starter en nervepirrende jagt på kvinden og hendes kidnapper. Med telefonen som eneste redskab kæmper Asger imod tiden for at redde kvinden. Men snart viser det sig, at forbrydelsen er større end Asger først troede.

Gustav Möller, the Director and script co-writer of this intense thriller makes an impressive debut with “The Guilty”. The young Swede, who’s living in Denmark, has found inspiration for the film in a real US 911 call, he came across in YouTube. What he recalls from the video is: “I was gripped at how you could be just listening to a phone call for 20 minutes…That fascination became the starting point for the film.” Indeed, “The Guilty” is set in a single location – the emergency services dispatch center in Copenhagen, where the alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm (played by Jakob Cedergren) answers increasingly alarming calls from a kidnapped woman. In the course of the case he realizes that it’s a more severe crime then he expected.