Centenario della nascita di Thor
Heyerdhal
KON-TIKI
regia di Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Norvegia 2012
proiezione del film
Cinema Corallo
via San Sebastiano 11 - Laigueglia
martedì 3 giugno 2014, ore 21,30
Kon-Tiki is a 2012 Norwegian 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. It was the highest-grossing film of 2012 in Norway and the country's most expensive production to date.[4]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.[5] It is Norway's fifth Academy Award nomination.[6] The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.[7] It is the first time a Norwegian film has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.[8]
The film is the dramatised 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.
Noting similarities between statues found in South America and the Polynesian Moai, Heyerdahl's 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 mile-journey across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia aboard the small raft, along with his crew of five men (and a macaw named Lorita).
During the three months aboard the primitive vessel named after Inca god of Sun and storm, Kon-Tiki, the crew's scientific reenactment of the legendary voyage from the coast of Peru to the Polynesian islands is met with setbacks in the form of storms, sharks, and other perils of the open sea.
Cast
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl
Anders Baasmo Christiansen as Herman Watzinger
Gustaf Skarsgård as Bengt Danielsson
Odd-Magnus Williamson as Erik Hesselberg
Tobias Santelmann as Knut Haugland
Jakob Oftebro as Torstein Raaby
Agnes Kittelsen as Liv Heyerdahl
Manuel Cauchi as Jose Bustamente
Richard Trinder as Løytnant Lewis
Katinka Egres as beautiful señorita
Stefan Cronwall as Svensk eventyrer
Eleanor Burke as Travel Agent
KON-TIKI
regia di Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Norvegia 2012
proiezione del film
Cinema Corallo
via San Sebastiano 11 - Laigueglia
martedì 3 giugno 2014, ore 21,30
Kon-Tiki is a 2012 Norwegian 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. It was the highest-grossing film of 2012 in Norway and the country's most expensive production to date.[4]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.[5] It is Norway's fifth Academy Award nomination.[6] The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.[7] It is the first time a Norwegian film has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.[8]
The film is the dramatised 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.
Noting similarities between statues found in South America and the Polynesian Moai, Heyerdahl's 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 mile-journey across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia aboard the small raft, along with his crew of five men (and a macaw named Lorita).
During the three months aboard the primitive vessel named after Inca god of Sun and storm, Kon-Tiki, the crew's scientific reenactment of the legendary voyage from the coast of Peru to the Polynesian islands is met with setbacks in the form of storms, sharks, and other perils of the open sea.
Cast
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl
Anders Baasmo Christiansen as Herman Watzinger
Gustaf Skarsgård as Bengt Danielsson
Odd-Magnus Williamson as Erik Hesselberg
Tobias Santelmann as Knut Haugland
Jakob Oftebro as Torstein Raaby
Agnes Kittelsen as Liv Heyerdahl
Manuel Cauchi as Jose Bustamente
Richard Trinder as Løytnant Lewis
Katinka Egres as beautiful señorita
Stefan Cronwall as Svensk eventyrer
Eleanor Burke as Travel Agent
