--- title: 'Kon-Tiki (1950)' type: 'film' director: 'Thor Heyerdahl' released: '1950-01-13' runtime_minutes: 75 genres: - 'Documentary' countries: - 'Sweden' - 'Norway' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kon-tiki-1950' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042650/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Kon-Tiki (1950) 1950 · 75 min · Documentary · Sweden, Norway ## Synopsis Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards. The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar. ## Credits - **Director of Photography:** [Knut Haugland](https://cinepixo.com/people/knut-haugland), [Hilding Bladh](https://cinepixo.com/people/hilding-bladh) - **Director:** [Thor Heyerdahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/thor-heyerdahl), [Olle Nordemar](https://cinepixo.com/people/olle-nordemar) - **Screenplay:** [Thor Heyerdahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/thor-heyerdahl) - **Producer:** [Thor Heyerdahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/thor-heyerdahl), [Olle Nordemar](https://cinepixo.com/people/olle-nordemar) - **Original Music Composer:** [Sune Waldimir](https://cinepixo.com/people/sune-waldimir) - **Editor:** [Eric Nordemar](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-nordemar) ## Cast - [Herman Watzinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-watzinger) - [Torstein Raaby](https://cinepixo.com/people/torstein-raaby) - [Knut Haugland](https://cinepixo.com/people/knut-haugland) - [Erik Hesselberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/erik-hesselberg) - [Thor Heyerdahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/thor-heyerdahl) - [Bengt Danielsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/bengt-danielsson) - [Sol Lesser](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-lesser) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/kon-tiki-1950 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1758118); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.