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Kon-Tiki is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. The film was mainly shot on the island of Malta. The role of Thor Heyerdahl is played by Pål Sverre Hagen. The film is an international co-production between Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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 Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage in 2006 as part of a six-member crew. The voyage, organised by Torgeir Higraff and called the Tangaroa Expedition , [ 63 ] was intended as a tribute to Heyerdahl, an effort to better understand navigation via centreboards ("guara [ 64 ] ") as well as a means to ...
A book about Thor Heyerdahl's voyage — he died in 2002 at the age of 87 — has become an international bestseller, and his film of the journey won an Academy Award for best documentary in 1951. Rapa Nui is best known for the hundreds of moai — monolithic human figures carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people.
In 2012, Sandberg and Rønning were concerned with a new big movie about Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki expedition. The development of this new film was shown in an exhibition at the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo. The film was released in 2012 with great reviews, Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of the critics gave a positive review.
He is perhaps best known internationally for playing Thor Heyerdahl in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film Kon-Tiki. [1] From 2019 to 2023, Hagen portrayed William in Exit, [2] a series in 3 seasons that described the decadent lives of 4 men in Oslo's finance elites. It became the most streamed in the history of Norwegian national ...
Kon-Tiki: Thor Heyerdahl: Thor Heyerdahl: Documentary: To mistenkelige personer: Tancred Ibsen: Forbidden to be shown in public by the Supreme Court of Norway in 1952, allowed and published in 2007 [1] 1951: Vi gifter oss: Nils R. Müller: Henki Kolstad: Comedy: Kranes konditori: Astrid Henning-Jensen: Wenche Foss, Aud Schønemann, Harald Heide ...