Raabyjeva zagonetka - Movies | Art-kino Croatia

Torstein Raaby was a James Bond figure working as a special agent for Churchill’s MI6 during World War II. He parachuted into the Arctic part of Norway by plane and sent information back to England about the German battleship Tirpitz that ultimately led to the sinking of the ship by British bombers. After the war he took part in his best friend Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition, were they drifted on an ancient raft over the Pacific Ocean in 101 days in 1947, met President Truman at the White House and received an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1952. Torstein died when he was only 45 years old on an expedition to the North Pole in 1964. He died near the Canadian Forces Station in Alert, Nunavut - the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.