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- MOVIE page: Kon-Tiki (2012)
- Rate: 7.2/10 total 13,576 votes
- Genre: Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
- Runtime: 118 min
- Filming Location: Phuket, Thailand
- Budget: $16,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross: $1,212,236 (USA) (14 June 2013)
- Director: Wilson Yip
- Stars: Pl Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgrd | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Johan Söderqvist
- Plot Keyword: Pacific | Ocean | Expedition | Raft | Pacific Ocean
- Petter Skavlan (written by)
- Allan Scott (script consultant)
Goofs: Factual errors: The people on the float were not worried about whether the ropes would hold the float together, as it is portrayed in the film. As we can see in the 1950 documentary, the balsa wood was much softer than the rope, and it was actually the rope that ate through the wood. The result was that the rope eventually was protected by the space that had been created around it.
Plot: The story of legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300 miles crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Full summary » | »
Story: The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans already back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea and settle on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101 days 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. 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 Acaemy award winning documentary in 1951, and wrote a book about the expedition which 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. ... Written byOJT
Produced By:
- Aage Aaberge known as producer
- Christoph Daniel known as executive producer
- Alainée Kent known as associate producer
- Lone Korslund known as executive producer
- Stephan Mallmann known as associate producer
- Richard Mansell known as associate producer
- Marc Schmidheiny known as executive producer
- Petter Skavlan known as executive producer
- Johan Christopher Stenersen known as executive producer
- Kaare Storemyr known as line producer
- Dario Suter known as executive producer
- Jeremy Thomas known as producer
- Peter Watson known as executive producer
- Henrik Zein known as executive producer
- Harald Zwart known as executive producer
- Pål Sverre Hagen known as Thor Heyerdahl
- Anders Baasmo Christiansen known as Herman Watzinger
- Tobias Santelmann known as Knut Haugland
- Gustaf Skarsgård known as Bengt Danielsson
- Odd Magnus Williamson known as Erik Hesselberg (as Odd-Magnus Williamson)
- Jakob Oftebro known as Torstein Raaby
- Agnes Kittelsen known as Liv Heyerdahl
- Peter Wight known as Spinden
- Amund Hellum Noraker known as Bamse
- Eilif Hellum Noraker known as Thor Jr.
- Elisabeth Matheson known as Allison
- Kasper Ameberg Johnsen known as Thor 6 yrs.
- Edward Kling known as Erik 7 yrs.
- Jo Adrian Haavind known as Journalist
- Jonas Heier Straumsheim known as Photographer
- Søren Pilmark known as Freuchen
- Trevor Martin known as Committee Member
- Johnny Myers known as Committee Member
- Robert Rowe known as Committee Member
- Perdita Avery known as Secretary
- Ian Bonar known as Sailor
- Sam Chapman known as Sailor
- Eleanor Burke known as Female Travel Agent
- Mikhail Basmadjian known as Senor Real
- Katinka Egres known as Beautiful Senorita
- Richard Trinder known as Lieutenant Lewis
- Tarang known as The Chief
- Manuel Cauchi known as Bustamente
- La-Oug known as Tei
- Todd Boyce known as Maitre d'
- Ea Johanna Sandberg known as Child
- Jo Hannah Emblem Rønning known as Child
- Jonatan Meyer known as Child
- Jakob Sander Ronne known as Child
- Halvor Aasen known as Child
- Thor Andreas Heyerdahl known as Child
- Thomas Arnold known as Harry (uncredited)
- Jörgen Berthage known as Waiter (uncredited)
- Stefan Cronwall known as Svensk äventyrare (uncredited)
- Ian Knauer known as Johnson (uncredited)
- Ole Sletner known as (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Recorded Picture Company (RPC)
- Roenbergfilm
- Nordisk Film Production
- DCM Productions
- Film i Väst (in co-production with)
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for a disturbing violent sequence
Kon-Tiki (2012) Review by OJT from Norway
How I love to watch history-telling like this! What talent in bothwriting and film making it is! This is both epic and important.
This is the story about the amazing world famous Kon-Tiki trip crossingthe pacific on a balsa-raft just to prove this happened in ancienttimes, made by the makers of great Max Manus.
The trip, taken on the basis of an idea of the explorer Thor Heyerdahl,was completely ludicrous and no one believed it could be done. and howcould a trip like this be told better than by Heyerdahl himself in thedocumentary made during the trip.
Back in 1947 this was just the story the world wanted to be told afterthe 2nd world war and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The documentary film from the trip later won Oscar (1951), and the bookwas translated into 70 languages, and sold more than 50 million copiesworld wide.
Finally we get to see the trip dramatized as it should be. And theresult is really an amazing and epic film which holds two hours ofexplorer-ism, excitement and awe. I think we really get to imagine howit was to be 6 persons floating on an uncontrollable raft in the middleof nowhere for more than hundred days. The bore, the awe ofdiscoveries, the fear of weather, sharks and whales. The psychologicaltoll, the friendship...
It's a great story and a great film which will make new generationspick up the book with the same name, before they watch the originaldocumentary. Beautifully filmed, well played, even down to Heyerdahlincredibly bad English pronunciation. Not all is accurate. There's beena debate around the premiere about making Herman Watzinger such a wimpycharacter, when we actually was a Norwegain 100 m record holder and astrong guy with good looks, but the writers found the story neededheart, and not only bald and crazy feeling-less young men. I agree.Over 100 days on a raft is at least 90 days of boredom.
Thor Heyerdahl himself made this trip to prove his idea, which no onewould believe, and later got famous. He made the trip though he was notonly not able to swim, but actually afraid of water, can you imagine!And it also tells the story of those left behind, wife and kids.
This is the most expensive Norwegian film production ever, and thestory is a Norwegian sacred explorers story, as good as they come,changing world history. Thankfully the film floats as good as the raft,and is well wort ha watch. Great manuscript, beautifully filmed, goodhandcraft.
The film comes in both a Norwegian and an international (English)spoken version, which gives the movie a possibility to be shown allover the world. And it will. Treat yourself to an insane, but epictrip, and get to be an explorer yourself. This is great storytelling!It loses one of 10 stars due to the irritating (though factual) Englishpronunciation of Heryerdahl. Not necessary to re-experience that tomake a good story.
Kon-Tiki (2012) Review by Ray Lahey from Canada
KON-TIKI (2012)
During the 20th century some individual achievements so captured thepopular attention as to become iconic: Lindberg's flight across theAtlantic, Hillary and Norgay's conquest of Everest, Roger Bannister'sfour minute mile. Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 voyage across the Pacific wasone of these events. His book, Kon-Tiki, sold tens of millions ofcopies, and his 1950 documentary won an Academy Award, as much arecognition of the feat as the film.
Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have now decidedto put on the screen a dramatized account of Heyerdahl's expedition.But the obvious question is how can you make interesting the story ofsix men confined to a small wooden raft for 101 days? In fact bycomparison to the exploit it recorded, the original documentary cameacross as rather bland, precisely because of such limitations. But thisnew film is anything but tame, and succeeds in combining strikingphotography of the adventure itself with a compelling look at one man'squest to show that "it can be done."
The strength of the picture is that it situates the voyage within thecontext of Heyerdahl's struggle to get the scientific and financialsupport to try out his theories. He had speculated that Polynesia wassettled by Inca voyagers who had used the prevailing currents to driftacross the Pacific on rafts similar to the one he would build. (Heproved this possible, although DNA testing suggests that Polynesiansshare a predominantly Asian heritage.)
Heyerdahl had developed this premise much earlier, but after World WarII, he made serious attempts to secure the backing for a voyage thatwould test his theories. Not only did he encounter opposition fromthose who felt that he was wrong, but even more often he was dismissedas a fanatic with a suicidal plan.
Eventually he did manage to scrounge some backing, including privateloans, help from the Peruvian authorities and supplies from the U.S.Navy. Perhaps more importantly, he found five companions who hadconfidence enough to put their lives in his hands. All were Norwegianexcept Bengt Danielsson, a Swede with an interest in migration. ErikHesselberg was the navigator. Knut Haugland and Torstein Raaby, bothheroes of the Norwegian resistance, were the radio experts. HermanWatzinger was an engineer who helped design the raft, and who recordedmuch of the voyage's scientific data.
Although he took along modern equipment, Heyerdahl was concerned thatthe raft itself should be constructed only from materials that wereavailable in ancient times. Accordingly the raft was constructed fromlogs tied together with rope, surmounted by a thatched cabin and alarge cloth sail. The raft itself was about 45 by 18 feet (13.7 by 5.5m), and the cabin about 14 by 8 (4.2 by 2.4 m). The crew sailed fromCallao, Peru, on April 28, 1947 and arrived in Raroia in the TuamotuIslands on August 7.
The film succeeds by contextualizing these 101 days at sea againstHeyerdahl's struggles to get the expedition underway. Although theinevitable storm and the equally foreseeable shark attack have theirmoments, the movie similarly attends to the relationships among theexpedition's six members, their level of bonding to Heyerdahl asleader, and his own relationship with a wife who wanted to besupportive, but who found the risks unacceptable. It establishes theoverall context by its early sequence dealing with Thor's honeymoonstay in the Marquesas, where he began to discover the apparent Incaconnections that led to his theories.
In the central role of Thor Heyerdahl, Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen mustcarry the story, and he does. His re-creation of the historicalcharacter is convincing as the embodiment of determination, not quiteobsessive but coming close, as he plans, argues and cajoles to try toturn his project into a reality. As his fellow Norwegian crew membersOdd Magnus Williamson as Hesselberg, Tobias Santlemann as Haugland, andJacob Oftebro as Raaby are equally credible figures: young, heroic, andwilling to give Heyerdahl their trust. Playing the only non-Norwegianin the group, Gustaf Skarsgård as Bengt Danielsson is a littledetached, but perhaps even more intellectually committed than theothers to what they are about. For contrast and drama, the filmmakersapparently took liberties with the character of Herman Watzinger,played by Anders Baasmo Christensen. Christensen does well with thepart given him, although the real-life Watzinger was almost certainlystronger and more competent than the movie shows him. Given that shemust play an ambivalent role, Agnes Kittelsen as Liv gives a veryeffective performance as Thor's wife and the film's only prominentfemale character.
Gorgeous photography and great production values set Kon-Tiki off. ThePacific Ocean scenes were actually shot in the waters off Malta, thetropical ones in the Maldives and Thailand, with other locations inNorway and the U.S. used as appropriate. It is a real accomplishmentthat even with the limited space of the raft cinematographer GeirHartly Andreassen never lets it become visually boring. Going from themicro to the macro, he manages to keep interesting also the vast emptyspaces of the ocean, which emerges as a living character in its ownright, often peaceful, sometimes petrifying, always powerful.
It must have been a temptation for the directors and principalscreenwriter Petter Skavlan to fictionalize Heyerdahl's exploits and tocreate a stunning action/adventure tale on the lines of A Perfect Stormor White Squall. Thankfully they recognized that Heyerdahl himself wasa character larger than life whose daring voyage became an extension ofhimself and his ambitions. In doing that they keep alive the iconicfigure that he was, and give audiences some appreciation of how thesheer willpower of one individual can produce deeds that capture theimagination of the world.
Kon-Tiki (2012) Review by Lars Hermans from Norway
This movie is seriously good.
I'm not saying this just because I'm Norwegian and extremely proud thatmy country managed to produce this amazing adventure. Kon-Tiki isdefinitely one of the most original, well- written and fun films I'veseen this year.
It's the 1940s. Without spoiling the story (which is real by the way),we are invited to follow Thor Heyerdahl as he gathers a crew of overlyconfident Scandinavians attempting to cross the Pacific on a balsa woodraft. All in the name of science and a boyish thirst for adventure!This attitude is understandable; after enduring the misery of WW2,little seemed more tempting than escaping to faraway exotic lands.Bravery or stupidity? In either case, viewers can look forward to onehell of a boat ride.
What I adore about Kon-Tiki is the presentation of the raft'ssurroundings. The Pacific Ocean is just as magnificent and beautiful asit is dangerous and merciless, and this dynamic is perfectly balanced.Peaceful waters and clear skies suddenly give way for dangerous sea-creatures and storms mighty enough to tear the old-fashioned raftapart. Kon-Tiki is simply grand. At times my adrenaline rose, my heartstarted pumping, and I started lusting for adventure myself - just bywatching.
Another strong point is the cast. The actors do a brilliant job atdepicting the slightly eccentric yet adventurous Scandinavians far awayfrom their Nordic comfort zone. Thor Heyerdahl is particularly wellportrayed with his dreamer-like attitude and awkward English skills.Although I would prefer more emphasis on character development,Kon-Tiki make them just interesting enough for viewers to care forthem.
Kon-Tiki is such a delight to watch, because it's original, differentand not your typical Hollywood adventure flick. No, the plot is notcomplex. It has no twists or turns, and Kon-Tiki certainly doesn'tcontain the amount of drama you'd expect. And this is what makes itgood - the film is all about the sheer excitement of the adventure. Ofcourse it isn't perfect, but for a Norwegian film, I'd say it holds itsground rather strongly.
I honestly haven't had this much fun with a film for a long while. Ifyou're lucky, Kon-Tiki might show up on a festival or internationalcinema near you. In that case, do watch it.
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