Fången - Dawit Isaak och tystnaden

A quiet, sobering documentary that watches a family wait while diplomacy fails, leaving a heavy sense of helplessness and endurance.

Directed by

Gellert Tamas, Maria Magnusson

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Dawit Isaak, Esayas Isaak, Efrem Isaak

Overview

By the autumn of 2026, 25 years will have passed since the Swedish-Eritrean journalist and author Dawit Isaak was arrested in Eritrea. He is thus the EU citizen who has been imprisoned the longest as a prisoner of conscience. To this day, Dawit Isaak has neither been charged nor convicted. Twenty-five years of quiet diplomacy by Sweden have failed to secure his release. The film was first broadcast on SVT in 2011, at which point Isaak had been imprisoned for 10 years.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Justice, isolation, family, politics

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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