The Guilty (2018) on Netflix
Asger Holm, a police officer on desk duty, answers a call from a woman signaling she is being abducted and driven north. The phone is his only tool.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb7.5/1070,002 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes98%
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Plot summary
Taken off patrol while he awaits a hearing over a shooting on duty, Asger Holm spends his shift answering emergency calls at a Copenhagen dispatch desk. A woman named Iben speaks as if she were addressing a child, and her answers to his yes-or-no questions reveal that she has been taken against her will and is traveling north by van. The call breaks off. Asger traces her number and telephones her home, where a young girl picks up. The girl says her father Michael no longer lives there, that he came to the house and left with Iben, and that he drives a white van. Asger asks the North Zealand police to look for the vehicle and stays at his desk after his shift ends.
Cast
- Katinka Evers-Jahnsenas Mathilde (voice)
- Guuled Abdi Youssefas Mand ved natklub (voice)
- Caroline Løppkeas Fuld kvinde (voice)
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- Nicolai Wendelboas Police Officer in Car (voice)
- Tommy Bachas Afternoon Watch #1
- Nicolai Wendelboeas Politiassistent i bil (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Guilty (2018)
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- Confining the film to a single police dispatch center let Gustav Möller shoot The Guilty for about €500,000 (US$570,671), with filming taking just 13 days using a three-camera setup.
- The story began with a YouTube clip of a kidnapped woman calling an emergency dispatcher while her kidnapper sat nearby; director Gustav Möller was struck by how much an audio clip could convey with no pictures at all.
- Möller and cinematographer Jasper Spanning split the script into eight segments, changing the camera lenses and visual approach for each, with the segments running from 5 to 35 minutes of screen time.
