21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema Competition New Filmakers
BUDBRINGEREN

Norway   

BudbringerenComedy in black humr on love, money, canned spagghetti, karaoke, involuntary good deeds, a season of passion, and the pleasure of being inert.

Roy is a postman who is curious and hungry for love. He has an unbelievable capacity for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. With no respect for privacy of another he has, a long time before, abandoned professional ethics. He opens other people's letters and insults friends and colleagues. He lives in a filthy room in an apartment that the other tenant has had to reform three times in only three years to keep it habitable.

Life is a vicious circle for Roy: nothing exciting happens. One day, however, an incident changes his routine. Line, a young girl, forgets her key in the in-mail box. After some moments of hesitation, Roy goes to the girl's apartment and opens the door, at which his life takes a new turn. As from then, he is involved in something much more dangerous than opening other people's mail.

 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Pal Sletaune
SCREENPLAY: Pal Sletaune e Jonny Halberg
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Kjell Vassdal
EDITION: Pal Gengenbach
MUSIC: Joachim Holbek
CAST: Robert Skjaerstad, Andrine Saether, Per Egil Aske, Eli Anne Linnestad
PRODUCER: Dag Nordahl e Peter Boe
FESTIVALS: Cannes
PRODUCTION: Moviemakers AS
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ORIGINAL TITLE: Budbringeren
   Col., 83 min., 1996

Pal Sletaune

Born in 1960, Pal Sletaune studied literature, history of art and photography. He completed short films and documentaries before making Junk Mail, his first feature film. Two of his short films, The Bingo Joint and Eating Out were awarded prizes in international festivals.