{"id":1562,"date":"2013-02-28T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2014-08-22T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:45:11","slug":"norway-at-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/norway-at-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you watch the Oscars last Sunday?
\nThis year, many nordmenn<\/strong> were following the American movie award show with a lot of spenning<\/strong> (excitement). Hvorfor?<\/strong> (Why?) Perhaps you noticed that a Norwegian film<\/strong> had been nominated in the category \u201dBest Foreign Language Film\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

In Kon-Tiki<\/strong> the regiss\u00f8rer<\/strong> (directors) Joachim R\u00f8nning and Espen Sandberg recreate the famous Kon-Tiki Expedition. In 1947, the Norwegian oppdagelsesreisende<\/strong> (explorer, \u201ddiscovery traveller\u201d) Thor Heyerdahl achieved global ber\u00f8mmelse<\/strong> (fame) as he and five friends sailed all the way from South America to Polynesia in the Pacific \u2013 on a t\u00f8mmerfl\u00e5te<\/strong> (raft)! In 101 days, the six adventurers managed to cross around 7000 km (4,300 miles) of Stillehavet<\/strong> (the Pacific Ocean). The aim was to prove Heyerdahl\u2019s theory that the first inhabitants of P\u00e5ske\u00f8ya<\/strong> (the Easter Island) could plausibly have come from S\u00f8ramerika<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kon-Tiki<\/strong> is a word that fills many Norwegians with a sense of adventure and greatness. It was the name Heyerdahl gave to his raft, and to the book and documentary film he made about his expedition. In fact, this film won an Oscar in 1951! \u2013 If you go to Oslo, you should definitely visit Kon-Tiki-museet<\/strong> (the Kon-Tiki museum) on the island of Bygd\u00f8y<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

With the help of modern computer effects, it has finally been possible to recreate Heyerdahl\u2019s ekspedisjon<\/strong> [expediSHON] for det hvite lerret<\/strong> (the silver screen). The new Kon-Tiki<\/strong> was filmed in Malta, starring P\u00e5l Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl, with Agnes Kittelsen as his kj\u00e6reste<\/strong> (girlfriend) Liv.<\/p>\n

The film was given excellent anmeldelser<\/strong> (reviews) in Norway, where it became the most watched movie of 2012, even ahead of Hollywood. (Almost 900,000<\/a> went to see it, that\u2019s about one fifth of the population!)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Kon-Tiki did not win the prestigious statuette. The Oscar for best fremmedspr\u00e5klige film<\/strong> went to \u201dAmour\u201d by William Haneke from Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Did you watch the Oscars last Sunday? This year, many nordmenn were following the American movie award show with a lot of spenning (excitement). Hvorfor? (Why?) Perhaps you noticed that a Norwegian film had been nominated in the category \u201dBest Foreign Language Film\u201d\u2026 In Kon-Tiki the regiss\u00f8rer (directors) Joachim R\u00f8nning and Espen Sandberg recreate the…<\/p>\n

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