Kon-Tiki

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The other day there was a list of applicants for Oscar. The list of best foreign films appears “Kon-Tiki” of Norwegian filmmakers. Naturally, at the journey of Tour Heyerdal. It's nice when your country has such a hero, without politics, pump and all sorts of rubbish. I don’t know about the chance of the film: a pity we have not shown him. I can only note one nuance: the shooting of the underwater world was carried out using, it seems, of the same program as in the Life of Pi. In both cases, the beauty is unusual, but this makes the films involuntary competitors. Although what am I talking about? The nominations are different ...

In fact, I went to Norway to a seminar in political journalism: newspapers, television companies, party representatives, parliament ... as usual. But the trip became unexpectedly thematic. The head of our course-a 78-year-old Norwegian-offered to go to the cinema. For a new film about the Hayerdal Tour, about its swimming on the con-tiki. I had, to say, a wary attitude towards Norwegian cinema. Well, I know about him - nothing. The curiosity overpowered: to watch a feature film about a person whom you knew personally-this is something from the category of a new one ...

The books of the tour of Haerdala, I was fond of his travels from early childhood. A couple of books were table read -read, as they say, to holes. But 1947-the year of swimming on the con-tiki-seemed so far away, and this reckless Norwegian was as a character in an adventure novel. Then Senkevich told about him, who came to visit us - they worked together with dad. The character found the legendary halo. And here, in 2000, I can still say that a completely green journalist says: Ira, here the tour is Heyerdal. You go to meet him, well, to ride with him everywhere. I quietly slide from the windowsill and say the most stupid phrase in my life: isn't he dead? ... for a long time?

The 86-year-old Heyerdal cheerfully rushed through all the objects where he was brought, periodically losing Jacqueline, which, like any beautiful woman, was interested in outfits and jewelry, including in museums, and joked during any interview. Talking about communicating with Soviet soldiers in Kirkenes at the end of the war, the tour remembered how he sang along with Russian songs. It seems to be the Volga-Volga. However, not knowing the language. And also, laughing, he said that he was immediately enlightened, which in Russian means his surname.

In Arkhangelsk, Tour Heyerdal came to the congress of the Russian Geographical Society, and even at that time he was interested in where the Vikings came from the Scandinavia. According to his version, it turned out that almost from the Kuban. Somehow slowly, rivers 2 thousand years ago. And then, through the millennium, they went back. In Arkhangelsk, a super -legendary Norwegian was delighted with wooden ships and old hedges. “That's it,” he said, “there are still only in the north of Norway. We always talked closely. ”

... And the Norwegians made the film excellent, almost the most expensive in their history. With special effects, flying fish, sharks, blood and drama, and even a touching crab, which came to Polynesia with a hare. And the raft is generally a real balce, as expected. Only not “Kon-Tiki”, but “Tangaroa”. In 2006, on him, his grandson Heyerdala Olav repeated his grandfather's journey. The royal family attended the premiere of the film in August. The hall at our session was filled with two -thirds. There were no problems at all - half of the dialogues in the film sounds in English.

After the film, colleagues amazed at Elnar: he was not familiar with the legendary compatriot and what he knows about him. The Norwegian, despite his extensive journalistic practice, admitted that, no, was not lucky. Then I, still in a good condition, and let it down. Around everything was immediately respected. Looks like? - asked. Similar, only the actor is too beautiful. The real tour was more charismatic.

In Rider, I had a book about a trip to Ra. All week I remembered my childhood and Peru.

In the Museum of Kon-Tiki, which is located in Oslo, you can look not only at the balce raft, but also at the papyrus RA-2. I thought she would be more. There are really huge reeds on Titicaca, well, not liners, of course, but very large boats. So I thought that Ra would be a rally 2 more. I was dragged from the museum of my colleague almost on the lasso, and I squeaked something about rappa-nui and how convenient it is to slide along the smooth surface of the reservoir on a wicker bowl.

Tour Heyerdal (Norv. Thor Heyerdahl , October 6, 1914 - April 18, 2002). The famous Norwegian traveler, anthropologist, archaeologist, writer. He brought worldwide fame to him, trips to the Condo-Tiki raft in 1947 from the shores of Peru to the islands of Polynesia, on the papyrus boats of the RA and RA-2 and the Tigris reed boat. With his experiments, he tried to prove that in ancient times, with the help of primitive vessels, people could cross large aquatic spaces, and there are connections between civilizations of different continents.