Junk Mail

Junk Mail (Budbringeren) is a Norwegian film made in 1997. The film won many awards including Best Actress for Eli Anne Linnestad, Best Actor for Robert Skjærstad and Best Film for Pål Sletaune at the Amanda Awards in Norway and the Mercedes-Benz award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film makes evocative use of its spectacular setting, the Norwegian capital of Oslo. It avoids the most famous locations and instead uses the lesser-known streets, harbour and railway sidings; it was mainly filmed on location. Junk Mail tells the story of lazy, nosy postman Roy Amundsen who has a bad habit of dipping into the mail of his customers. He takes this further when he finds the keys to the apartment of laundry assistant Line Groberg and decides to...