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12/09/1997 Adventure, Drama, History 2h 16m
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At the end of the world his real journey began.

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. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

  1. Jean-Jacques Annaud

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Brad Pitt

    Heinrich Harrer

  2. Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk

    Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old

  3. David Thewlis

    Peter Aufschnaiter

  4. BD Wong

    Ngawang Jigme

  5. Mako

    Kungo Tsarong

  6. Lhakpa Tsamchoe

    Pema Lhaki

  7. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

    Ingrid Harrer

  8. Duncan Fraser

    British Officer

  9. Danny Denzongpa

    Regent

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2020-08-10
_**Twelve years in the Tibet area, 1939-1951**_

“Seven Years in Tibet” (1997) is a biographical historical drama about Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) and his time in Tibet and friendship with the Dalai Lama, a boy, just before & during WW2, as well as the build-up to the invasion of Tibet in 1950 by Communist Chinese forces and the immediate aftermath. David Thewlis is on hand as Heinrich’s German mountaineer friend.

The movie’s similar to other realistic walk-to-salvation wilderness adventures, like “The Way Back” (2010). Pitt is charismatic as the pompous ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$70,000,000.00

Revenue
$131,457,682.00

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