Kon-Tiki (2012 film)
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| Directed by |
Joachim Rønning Espen Sandberg |
| Produced by |
Jeremy Thomas Aage Aaberge |
| Written by | Petter Skavlan |
| Starring |
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen Anders Baasmo Christiansen Tobias Santelmann Gustaf Skarsgård Odd-Magnus Williamson Jakob Oftebro Agnes Kittelsen |
| Music by | Johan Söderqvist |
| Cinematography | Geir Hartly Andreassen |
| Edited by | Per-Erik Eriksen Martin Stoltz |
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| Distributed by | Nordisk Film |
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119 minutes(Norwegian language) 114 minutes(English language) |
| Country | Norway Denmark Germany Sweden United Kingdom |
| Language | Norwegian English |
| Budget | 93 million NOK (~US$15.5 million) |
| Box office | $22.8 million |
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 Valheim Hagen. The film is an international co-production between Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
It was the highest-grossing film of 2012 in Norway and the country's most expensive production to date. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards. It is Norway's fifth Academy Award nomination. The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards. It is the first time a Norwegian film has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
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 migrating from the west, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.
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