Kon-Tiki (2012 film)
- Pål Sverre Hagen Valheim: Thor Heyerdahl
- Anders Christiansen Baasmo: Herman Watzinger
- Gustaf Skarsgård: Bengt Danielsson
- Odd -Magnus Williamson: Erik Hesselnberg
- Tobias Santelmann: Knut Haugland
- Jacob Oftebro: Torstein Raaby
- Agnes Kittelsen: Liv Heyerdahl
- Manuel Cauchi: Jose Bustamente
- Richard Trinder: Lieutenant Lewis
- Katinka Egres: beautiful Senorita
- Stefan Cronwall: Swedish adventurer
- Eleanor Burke: Travel Agent
- Sam Chapman: sailor
- Ian Knauer: Johnson
- Jörgen Berthage: waiter
- Thomas Arnold: Harry
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian biographical drama film from 2012 about the explorer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition and its members. The film was directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. In the leading role Pål Sverre Hagen Valheim played.
The film received generally good to very good reviews from Norwegian film critics. Production costs totaled $ 93 million crowns, he is therefore the most expensive Norwegian film. He has so far been sold in 33 countries. Kon-Tiki was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Oscar, all in the category for best foreign language film.
Action
The film tells the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his expedition in 1947. Heyerdahl wants contrary to the established scientific thesis on an immigration from Asia prove his spectacular theory that Polynesia was settled 1,500 years ago from South America. To support his theory, he wants to organize a crossing, as they could have then taken place. He wants to use the opportunities and resources that would have been the potential colonists available.
Heyerdahl teams up with five other men, the engineer Watzinger, two radio operators, an etymologist and a painter. After they have found themselves in Norway together, they fly to Peru to complete their travel arrangements. It is very difficult to raise money for the project. The men build there together for the assumed age, the South American tradition of a balsa raft strains. On the deck there is a hut and a mast holding the rectangular sail. Heyerdahl baptizing in the name of the raft Kon-Tiki, a creator god from the mythology of the Incas, which is also known as Qun Tiksi Wiraqucha. The five young adventurers to Heyerdahl not or hardly knew each other before the start of the expedition, and only one of them had experience in sailing. Heyerdahl himself has also a little afraid of water and can not swim, but it is willing to risk everything for his purpose at any price. During the raft Heyerdahl's wife from him separates.
From Peru, they begin their long, arduous and dangerous journey across the Pacific. First, they drive on the wrong course, to the ocean current then leads to Polynesia. Heyerdahl's team has except the radio does not have modern equipment and is day -to-day exposed to the forces of nature and many privations. The bonds of the logs loose and Watzinger asks Heyerdahl urgently to back them up with modern steel cable. Heyerdahl rejects the.
The expedition is a success despite some setbacks and finally they lay with the Kon-Tiki raft back about 7,000 kilometers. After 101 days the raft runs before Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago due. Heyerdahl can show so that the crossing by a simple raft would have been possible at that time.
Background
Formation
Issued in 1950, Thor Heyerdahl, a self-produced documentary film with the same title Kon-Tiki, in which the expedition members were involved. With this film, some homemade authentic photo and film recordings were included on their crossing. The documentary from 1950 in 1952 won an Oscar in the category " Best Documentary ". 1955 presented Heyerdahl Galapagos another documentary on the same subject.
2012 began, in Norway, to produce the feature film on the subject. When locations were chosen places and landscapes in Phuket, Thailand, the Maldives, in the Norwegian cities Oslo and Lillehammer, Bulgaria, Malta, Sweden and the United States.
The Oslo Kon-Tiki Museum presented this in an extra show the development of this new Kon-Tiki film.
Representation of Watzinger in the film
The film was criticized for representing the person Herman Watzinger. The descendants of Watzinger criticized, among other things, that Herman Watzinger not similar as the second expedition commander in the film in appearance, physically and in the character of the real person. These public reviews dissolved in Norway from a larger debate about the extent and dealing with the artistic freedom in the movie when this as Kon-Tiki is based on true events. The daughter of Watzinger indicated, among other things, that the film reflects a " grossly false picture " of her father, while others referred to the presentation by Herman Watzinger even as character assassination. The filmmakers gave in the course of this discussion, that they had made a slightly larger, freer, as well as poetic interpretation of the person Watzinger in the film to increase the voltage. But they denied gross distortions and character assassination by the person Watzinger.
Theater performances in Norway
Kon-Tiki drew at the weekend premiere of the many visitors to the cinema, more than ever compared to any other Norwegian film in one weekend with a corresponding film's release. About 165,000 people saw the film within the first three days. The previous record held until then, the Norwegian film Max Manus from 2008 with 134 842 visitors. After two weeks, the film crossed the mark of more than 400,000 visitors and was the second most popular film in 2012 in Norway. Since the third weekend of the movie starts, there were about 550,000 spectators who saw the film in Norway. After five weeks, there were more than 700,000 visitors and Kon-Tiki was thus one of the most most-watched films of 2012. The film was shown in cinemas Norway for six weeks due to his success.
Festival performances
Kon-Tiki had on August 23, 2012 its world premiere at the film- norske festivalen in Haugesund.
At the Toronto International Film Festival, the film was presented in 2012 as part of the program in a " special presentation " and got mostly good reviews.
Reviews
The film Kon-Tiki from 2012 underwent extensive reviews and ratings in the Norwegian media landscape:
- Dagbladet: Chamber Spill på Åpent hav
- Verdens Gang: Forventningene innfridd
- Filmmagasinet: Hollywoodsk natural action!
- NRK: Eventyrlysten tyter ut av filmruta!
- Aftenposten: Svært svømmedyktig " Kon Tiki " epic
- Dagsavisen: Episk above storslått Kon-Tiki
- Natt & Dag: Kon -Tiki
International reviews scored so far from warm to very good.
Reviews from Germany: Criticism and estimates for nomination in the category " Best Foreign Film " at the Oscars 2013:
- BlogFILMFRAGE.net: OSCARS 2013 Movie # 33: " Kon-Tiki " - Nominated in the category " Best Foreign Film "
Awards
Kon-Tiki was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kon-Tiki was in 2013 for the 85th ceremony of the Oscar nominated as one of five nominees in the category "Best Foreign Film ".
Book to film
Thor Heyerdahl: Kon -Tiki. List, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-548-61115-0. ( Special edition of the original German edition of 1949)