Kon Tiki (2012 film)

KonTiki is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Joachim Rnning and Espen Sandberg about the 1947 KonTiki expedition. The film was mainly shot on the island of Malta. The role of Thor Heyerdahl is played by Pl Sverre Valheim Hagen. The film is an international coproduction between Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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 preColumbian times.Noting similarities between statues found in South America and the Polynesian moai, Heyerdahls theory about the origin of the Polynesian people is bolstered by Polynesian folklore that tells of an ancient tribe called the Hanau epe that are said to have once inhabited Easter Island. While most experts hold that such a voyage across the vast ocean is unlikely to have ever been successful, in order to illustrate that there were no technological limitations that would have inhibited the ancient peoples from making the journey, Heyerdahl puts his theory to the test and builds a balsawood raft using the same techniques that would have been utilized 1500 years ago by the indigenous peoples of the region. Though he himself cannot swim or sail, he sets out on the treacherous 4,300 nautical milejourney across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia aboard the small raft, along with his crew of five men and a macaw named Lorita. ........

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