Seven years in Tibet [videorecording] / Mandalay Entertainment presents a Reperage and Vanguard Films/Applecross production ; produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud ; produced by John H. Williams, Iain Smith ; screenplay by Becky Johnston ; directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jetsun Pema. Based on the book by Heinrich Harrer. DVD release of the 1997 motion picture.
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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