Seventy-one minutes is a short runtime for a crime picture to earn its tension, and The Guilty spends every one of them inside a mood the catalogue files under Crime, Noir, and Mystery all at once.
What is The Guilty about?
A Danish production directed by Gustav Möller, the film keeps its genre labels doing real work rather than sitting there as marketing — noir shading, a mystery's slow reveal, and a crime plot's pressure all apply here, and the compact runtime suggests a story that stays tightly wound rather than sprawling. Because the catalogue description tied to this title does not reliably match this particular film, this page holds back from retelling plot beats it cannot stand behind, and focuses instead on what can be said with confidence: who made it, who is in it, and where it sits in the catalogue. Viewers drawn to Scandinavian genre filmmaking, where restraint often carries more weight than spectacle, are the natural audience for a film built this lean.
About the cast
Jakob Cedergren leads an ensemble that includes Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Jeanette Lindbæk, Simon Bennebjerg, and Laura Bro, a cast drawn largely from Danish film and television.
Context & significance
The Guilty carries a 2021 catalogue year and a Danish production credit, placing it within the wave of Nordic noir that has traveled well beyond its home market on the strength of mood and craft rather than star power. At seventy-one minutes, it runs shorter than most films sharing its genre tags, a length that in this tradition usually signals a filmmaker choosing compression over padding. The three genre tags together — Crime, Noir, and Mystery — point to a film more interested in atmosphere and slow-burn tension than in action set pieces, a common approach among Danish genre directors working with limited runtimes and confined settings.
Watching The Guilty on Ktime
The Guilty is available on K-Time with a free account login — reading this page costs nothing, and watching requires only signing in, no purchase involved. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are provided for this title, so viewers can follow it in Farsi audio or with Farsi text over the Danish original, inside K-Time's interface built for Persian-speaking audiences.