4th Norwegian Cinema Festival
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
35mm
Dates:
17–23 April 2013
Тур Хейердал-мл
/ Thor Heyerdahl-jr
The Kon-Tiki Museum Director
Born in 1938 in the family of famous Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. First joined his father on expedition when he served as a deckhand and archaeological assistant on the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to East Island and the East Pacific in 1955-56. This voyage and research would come to be known by the public through the book and documentary film Aku-Aku.
Two years after that expedition, Thor Heyerdahl Jr. graduated from high school and then attended the Military Academy. He served as a tank commander, patrolling the Norwegian border along what used to be the Soviet Union.
He went on to study natural sciences at the University of California, majoring in marine biology and graduating as Master of Science from the University of Oslo in 1970.
He has researched whales off the coasts of Greenland, tagged live polar bears in the Arctic, monitored pollution in the North Sea, and studied fisheries in Norwegian costal waters—all while working as a marine scientist at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway.
Since 1990, Thor Heyerdahl Jr. has served as director and later the chairman of the board of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, which houses the primitive ships his father built to sail across the world’s oceans and test his theories. For many years, the museum has been engaged in archaeological and ethnographical research in the Pacific area, mainly Easter Island and Peru.
Schedule:
17 April, Wednesday