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A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
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- TriviaAt the point of 2010, no one of the Kon-Tiki's members still alive: Torstein Raaby died in 1964 in Greenland by heart condition while he trying to get North Pole (he was 45). Erik Hesselberg died in 1972 in Larvik, Norway, by heart condition (he was 58). Herman Watzinger died in 1986 in Peru by natural causes (he was 70). Bengt Danielsson died in 1997 in Tahiti, by deterioration in his health (he was 75). Thor Heyerdahl died in 2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy, by a brain tumor (he was 87). Finally, Knut Haugland died in 2009 in Oslo, Norway, by natural causes (he was 92).
- ConnectionsEdited into Thor Heyerdahl - en oppdagelsesreisende i vår tid (1984)
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The movie was fascinating as was Heyerdahl's book. The problem is the "extra" material - an interview with Thor Heyerdahl and extra film clips of the Ra I, RaII and Tigris expeditions. Any first year film student could have done better. There were almost no captions or identifiers, the interview was chopped up and interspersed with clips with no explanation or relevance. The whole looked like a hasty mishmash that should never have been released. The extra color footage was fine. The extra on the "crew" could have benefited from a bit more than the name. As Heyerdahl died in 2002, that would also have been useful information. The photos -- with captions from the book -- were fine, if only the "interview" extra had been done half as well.
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- jonesdt-1
- Aug 31, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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