Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC, 4:3 (720x480) VBR | 02:15:59 | 4.35 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps or AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Adventure Drama, Biography
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC, 4:3 (720x480) VBR | 02:15:59 | 4.35 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps or AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps; French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Adventure Drama, Biography
Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of Allied forces as a prisoner of war. He and a fellow escapee, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), make their way to the Forbidden City in Tibet, where Peter finds a wife and Heinrich befriends the Western culture-obsessed teenage Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk), the spiritual leader of his Buddhist nation. As Heinrich waits out the war, his friendship with the Dalai Lama begins to transform him from haughty to humble, but a crisis with China looms. A controversy over the revelation of the real-life Harrer's Nazi Party affiliation brewed during the film's production, forcing Annaud to briefly deal with the subject in the film.Synopsis by Karl Williams, Allmovie.com
This moving story is full of breathtaking compositions, gorgeous spectacle, and inspiring philosophies articulated by sympathetic figures. Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) is a selfish mountain climber from Austria who's estranged from his wife and son. World War II and internment in a British POW camp interrupt a Himalayan expedition led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), with whom Harrer forges a grudging friendship. Using survival techniques that are dramatically detailed without being fetishized, Harrer and Aufschnaiter endure hunger and exposure as they make their way to Tibet, where Harrer and the young Dalai Lama develop a transferential relationship. Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover) directed a screenplay by Becky Johnston based on the 1953 memoir of Harrer, whom the movie's publicity condemned for not having much to say about his life before 1939 even as the press condemned the filmmakers for the same thing.Review by Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writers: Heinrich Harrer (book), Becky Johnston (screenplay)
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Victor Wong, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and other
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
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