Magnolia Home Entertainment has dated its upcoming Blu-ray release of Gustav Möller' thriller The Guilty (2018), starring Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, and Omar Shargawi. The release will be available for purchase on February 5.
Supplemental features to be included on this upcoming release have not yet been finalized by the studio.
Earlier this year, The Guilty was selected to represent Denmark in the Best Foreign Language Film Award category of the 91st Oscars.
Synopsis: When police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to the police station, is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of the crime slowly becomes more clear. The search to find the missing woman and her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill, as a ticking clock and his own personal demons conspire against him.
This innovative and unrelenting Danish thriller uses a single location to great effect, ratcheting up the tension as twists pile up and secrets are revealed. Director Gustav Möller expertly frames the increasingly messy proceedings against the clean Scandinavian sterility of the police department, while Cedergren's strong performance anchors the film and places the audience squarely in Holm's tragically flawed yet well-intentioned mindspace.