The film looks stunning. The colours make every shot alive with energy and passion. We can feel the fiery courage, the ambition and the inspiration boiling inside of Thor (Pal Sverre Vahleim Hagen) ...

British producer Jeremy Thomas prides himself on sticking with his passion projects for as long as it takes to find a way to get them made. But even by his standards, the making of “Kon-Tiki” was a ...

Kon-Tiki (2012) follows Thor Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft. He sets sail with a small crew to prove his theory that South America, not Asia, populated ...

LONDON — Norway has selected Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning’s “Kon-Tiki” as its candidate in the foreign-language film Oscar contest. The pic follows the 1947 expedition of anthropologist and ...

Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia was punctuated by dangers, yet most of its 101 days were spent in the doldrums. “Kon-Tiki,” the earnest new movie about ...

The Norwegian Oscar candidate will kick off the Scandinavian film festival on October 31. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Norwegian box office hit – and the country’s candidate for the 2013 ...

The real-life adventure tale, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the country's most-expensive film ever. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The drama, which has been a box ...

In the year 1947, young explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his five-man crew set out to cross the Pacific Ocean. Heyerdahl‘s aim is to prove that Polynesia was originally colonised from South America 1500 ...

Nominated in 2012 at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film Of The Year, Norwegian production “Kon-Tiki,” from directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (who are ...