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Released
1979 · FILM

Thor Heyerdahl: Die Tigris-Expedition

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Runtime
120 min
DocumentaryAdventureTV Movie

Synopsis

Explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his ten-man crew sailed their reed boat, the Tigris, along routes he believed were used by Sumerian traders 5,000 years ago. The film shifts focus from scientific inquiry to Heyerdahl himself, aiming to explore what drives him to risk his life in pursuit of knowledge.

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Principal cast & crew: 10

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Carlo Mauri

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