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Seven Years seep in Tibet
Directed by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Produced by
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Iain Smith
John H. Williams
Screenplay by
Becky Johnston
Based on
Seven Existence in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
Cinematography
Robert Fraisse
Studio
Mandalay Entertainment
Language
English
German
Nepali
Hindi
Mandarin
Tibetan
Rating
Box office
$131.5 million
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Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
1997 American film
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographicalwar 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. Seven Years in Tibet stars Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, and has music composed by John Williams with a feature performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
In the film, Harrer (Pitt) and fellow Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in the 1930s India. When World War II begins in 1939, their German citizenship results in their imprisonment in a British prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayas. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. There, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life. Harrer is introduced to the 14th Dalai Lama, still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Battle of Chamdo in 1950.
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Seven Years in Tibet
Brad Pitt climbs lotsa mountains and meets the young Dalai Lama, but doesn’t carry the audience with him for much of the odyssey in “Seven Years in Tibet.” Despite some magnificent widescreen lensing, faultless ethnographic detail and a timely sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people, director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s true-life tale about a self-obsessed Austrian mountaineer who learns selflessness in the Himalayas too rarely delivers at a simple emotional level. Pitt’s name and the exotic, bigscale nature of the yarn should ensure initial B.O. interest, but pic looks to scale only midrange peaks domestically, with international picking up some of the slack. “Tibet” will also prove an interesting test case for auds’ interest in such subject matter, as Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,” centered specifically on the Dalai Lama, readies for Christmas release.
Annaud’s previous pics (“Quest for Fire,” “The Lover,” “The Bear,” “The Name of the Rose”) have often shown a tendency to get bogged down in local or historical detail at the expense of pure emotional sweep. In “Tibet,” which starts with the hurdle of asking auds to