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Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer 's 1952 memoir of the same name , about his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951.
Synopsis. In 1939, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) in a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in the British Raj (present-day part of Pakistan). Austria in under German Nazi occupation at the time.
Oct 10, 1997 · Seven Years in Tibet: Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako. Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber, breaks out of prison and travels to the holy city of Lhasa. He is employed as an instructor to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.
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- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 1997-10-10
Oct 10, 1997 · 131 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1997. Roger Ebert. October 10, 1997. 4 min read. Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Seven Years in Tibet” takes the true story of a bright and powerful young boy who meets a stranger from a different land and buries it inside the equally true but less interesting story of the stranger.
Seven Years in Tibet. Hired as an instructor, an egocentric Austrian mountaineer gradually learns selflessness from the young Dalai Lama. Watch Seven Years in Tibet with a...
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- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- PG-13
- Brad Pitt
Plot. The book covers the escape of Harrer and his companion, Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India. [1] . Harrer and Aufschnaiter then traveled across Tibet to Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail.
Overview. Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war.
