| Director | Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning |
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| Genre | action film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film |
| Runtime | 118 min |
| Country | Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom |
| Budget | $93 million |
| Box office | $22.8 million |
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.