Kon-Tiki

Theatrical - Limited 2013-04-26

Cast Pal Sverre Valheim Hagen Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Directed by Joachim Ronning Espen Sandberg
Written by Petter Skavian

Genres: Adventure Foreign Film

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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.

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