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Drama: Action & Adventure

20/05/2015

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Drama about Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's famous voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

Adventure film. In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific Ocean in a balsa-wood raft - an epic 101-day voyage across 5,000 miles.

Adventure film. In 1947. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day voyage across 5,000 miles, while the world awaits the result.

This film uncovers the origin of the idea, the preparations and the events on the trip.

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