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Kon-Tiki is a 2012 Norwegian historical dramatized feature film about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. It starred Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl and was directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. It was the highest-grossing film of 2012 in Norway and the country's most expensive production to date. [60]
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947.. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.
The documentary film of the expedition entitled Kon-Tiki won an Academy Award in 1951. A dramatised version was released in 2012, also called Kon-Tiki, and was nominated for both the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards [21] and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards. [22]
Haugland played himself in the 1950 documentary film Kon-Tiki. [8] Haugland died on 25 December 2009, [9] and was the last living crew member who served on the Kon-Tiki expedition. [7] Several foreign decorations resulted from Haugland's connection with the Kon-Tiki and a state visit in the postwar period.
Kon-Tiki expedition, a 1947 Thor Heyerdahl-led journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, a 1948 book by Thor Heyerdahl about the expedition; Kon-Tiki, a 1950 documentary about the expedition; Kon-Tiki, a 2012 Norwegian film depicting the expedition
Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921 – 4 July 1997) was a Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. In 1991, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "exposing the tragic results of and advocating an end to French nuclear colonialism."
In 1947, Hesselberg lived in the village of Borre and worked as a painter. Thor Heyerdahl approached him and invited to become a navigator on the Kon-Tiki expedition. During the trip, he worked as an astronavigator and cartographer as he was the only professional sailor. He painted the large Kon-Tiki figure on the raft's main sail.