“Vogter”, interview with director Gustav Möller

With “The Guilty“ in 2018, his debut feature, Gustav Möller had managed to create a fast-paced psychological thriller in one small place such as the Emergency East desk in a police station. At the 74th Berlinale, the danish director brings his new work, “Vogter“, all set into a prison.

“As a filmmaker I think a prison is a very strong canvas to tell a story: strong characters, clear archetypes, a lot of rules and power structures” he states. In that very claustrophobic place, Möller examines the power dynamics between Eva (Sidse Babett Knudsen), an idealistic prison officer and Mikkel (Sebastian Bull), a newly arrived inmate who seems to trigger the worse part of Eva’s personality and past.

Gustav Möller also says that in the Scandinavian legal system there’s a very interesting conflict between wanting to help people and wanting punish people. As these are two conflicting objectives, his film tries to explore how and if they can co-exist.

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