Kon-Tiki

Synopsis: The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers, while the world was waiting for the result of the trip. The film tells about the origin of the idea, the preparations, and the events on the trip. The "Kon-Tiki" was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, and "Kon-Tiki" is an old name for this god. Heyerdahl filmed the expedition, which later became the Academy Award winning documentary in 1951, and he wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, although most anthropologists now believe they did not.

Genre: Adventure, History

Director(s): Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Actors: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård

Production: The Weinstein Company

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 13 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.2
Metacritic:: 62
Rotten Tomatoes:: 83%

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: PG-13
Year:: 2012
: 118 min
: $1,511,798
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Thor!
Thor!
It's dangerous!
Thor!
Thor, don't do it!
Thor, you have to wait!
Thor, don't do it!
You can fall in the water!
Don't do it!
- Don't do it!
- Don't do it! Don't jump!
- Come back, Thor.
- Don't!
Thor!
Are you okay?
Cold ...
- I thought he was dead.
- Cold ...
You tried to impress your
friends, didn't you?
- Thank God Erik saved you.
- God had nothing to do with it.
I just don't get what drives
you to do these things.
I hope you've learned your lesson...
and can promise that you'll never
do something so dangerous again.
Promise?
Do you promise?
- Smile.
- No, there shouldn't be any smiling.
Just be yourself.
Monsieur!
Liv!
So, no smiling.
You look very handsome.
You will make
this island famous.
It's going to be just
as with Darwin and the Galapagos.
When people hear of Fatu Hiva
they'll think of one thing: Thor Heyerdahl.
You have to turn more towards the current.
Yeah, but it's heavy.
Didn't you say that the first
Polynesians came from the west?
Yeah.
Imagine paddling all the way from Asia.
Against the current.
They must have had strong arms.
Yes.
Are you ok?
I'm fine.
It's fine.
Liv?
Listen to this.
"The Faa-hoka is the Marquisian
variety of pineapple."
"It was found in abundance by
the first European explorers"
- Same pineapple?
- Yes.
That really belongs in
South America.
Perhaps it can swim?
Tei? Where did your
ancestors come from?
We believe that Tiki ...
Tiki, the sun god, ...
took us to these islands...
from the land behind the sea.
From east?
"L'est?"
Everything comes from the east.
Ocean currents, wind and sun.
Tiki navigated towards the sun.
Tiki!
AMERICA AND POLYNESIA:
A STUDY OF:
PREHISTORIC RELATIONS.
- So how long are you in New York?
- Leaving in a few days.
Going home for Christmas.
My name is Heyerdahl.
Thor Heyerdahl.
Yes You already said that.
The wise men of anthropology
are quite clear
that Polynesia was not
populated from the east.
Wise men are not always right, Sir.
Look around you.
Every book in here offers
some theory or another.
Most written by one man,
read by perhaps only ten...
of whom nine
disagree with the theory.
But my theory provides evidence
that Polynesia was settled from the east.
I've spent ten years writing
and researching my thesis.
I lived on Fatu Hiva.
Professor... I lived my theory.
What number am I?
How many publishers
have you seen before me?
I know you've been to Barbeau and
Benedict. I presume Meade and Hill-Tout.
All scientists assume the
world is waiting to hear from them.
The fact that I am your last
hope ought to tell you something.
Yes, that scientific publishing is
completely closed to new ideas.
It tells me that when you
ignore evidence, nothing...
Listen to me!
You claim that the Peruvian pre-Inca
civilization was remarkable.
I agree.
And that the prevailing winds and
currents in the Pacific down there...
move from east to west.
But, it is also the case that Tiki
could not have travelled to Polynesia
because his people had no boats!
No.
But they had rafts.
They had balsa wood rafts.
Rafts!
Now that would be evidence!
You want your theory to be accepted?
You want to be right? Then go ahead.
Drift from Peru to Polynesia
on a balsa wood raft.
Good luck!
Gentlemen.
Your magazine will
be with me on a raft.
At the mercy of the winds,
all the way to Polynesia.
It is further than
from Chicago to Moscow.
Here to here.
You'll have some sort of
engine in case of emergency?
No. Absolutely not. We will surrender
to the current and the wind...
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