Seven years in Tibet [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Mandalay Entertainment presents a Reperage and Vanguard Films/Applecross production ; a film by Jean-Jacques Annaud ; produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, John H. Williams and Iain Smith ; screenplay by Becky Johnston ; directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako Jamyang, Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jetsun Pema. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.
Summary:
Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama.
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