Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

The script for Seven Years in Tibet is based on the 1953 memoir of Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, a former member of Hitler's beloved SS.

    Harrer (Brad Pitt) is an arrogant, selfish, and egocentric mountaineer and show-off. Amid a Nazi Germany media frenzy, Harrer's quest for fame leads him to abandon his pregnant wife to join a 1939 expedition to climb the unconquered Nanga Parbat - one of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. The German climbing team is led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), and there is a great deal of tension between the two, as Harrer doesn't like to take orders from anyone.
    When the climbing team return to their base camp, they discover that World War II has broken out in Europe. Harrer, Aufschnaiter, and their climbing team are all imprisoned in a POW camp in Northern India.
    Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape and spend the following years on the run in Tibet, until they find sanctuary in the holy city of Lhasa. Harrer strikes up an unlikely friendship with the young Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk). While Harrer is 'employed' to tutor the 14-year-old boy in Western science, in the story's great irony, it is Harrer who does most of the learning.
    In my very basic understanding of Tibetan Buddhism, I believe that the key to receiving enlightenment is the complete abandonment of one's ego. And it is with delicate subtlety that Producer/Director Jean-Jacques Annaud beautifully presents Harrer's spiritual transformation.
    Tragically, this peaceful land and its non-violent people are torn apart when the Chinese invade Tibet in 1950, a gross and shameful wrong which remains to this day.


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