Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film based on the 1952 book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War II, the interim period, and the Chinese Peoples Liberation Armys invasion of Tibet in 1950. Directed by JeanJacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, the score was composed by John Williams and features cellist YoYo Ma.
Austrian mountaineers Heinrich Harrer Pitt and Peter Aufschnaiter Thewlis are part of a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in British India presentday Pakistan. When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by British Indian authorities and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the presentday Indian state of Uttarakhand. Harrers pregnant wife, Ingrid, sends him divorce papers from Austria.In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross into Tibet. After being initially rejected by the isolated nation, they manage to travel in disguise to the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa. There, they become the house guests of Tibetan diplomat Kungo Tsarong Mako. The Tibetan senior official Ngawang Jigme Wong also extends friendship to the two foreigners with gifts of custommade Western suits. Aufschnaiter falls in love with the tailor, Pema Lhaki, and marries her. ........
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