Sons (Vogter) – film review [Video]

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM BERLIN

Prisoners deserve to be treated with dignity. And there’s nothing wrong with a little TLC. Fifty-something-year-old Eva (Sidse Babett Knudsen) provides male inmates with yoga, meditation and mindfulness activities. She is tough and firm, however avuncular, even a little motherly. Maybe that’s because her late son was once in prison, and she naturally misses him. One day, she requests that she is moved to the roughest part of the penitentiary, which holds the most dangerous and dysfunctional men of the rotten Kingdom of Denmark. Is she perhaps seeking a challenge? Or does she have an ulterior motive? At first, it isn’t clear why proactively asked for the transfer.

Dealing with such inmates – mostly rugged, muscular men with anger in their eyes and who refuse to …