Movie Trailer for Seven Years in Tibet (1997) starring Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jetsun Pema directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud Movie Review

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)   3/53/53/53/53/5

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So as already mentioned "Seven Years in Tibet" is the story of Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer who we meet him in the late 1930s as he joins a team of climbers attempting to climb Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas. The first half of the movie not only establishes Harrer's character as being self centred to the point he abandons his heavily pregnant wife to climb but also details how he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter end up in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. We see bad weather bring an end to their attempt to scale Nanga Parbat which ends up with them both being arrested as war had been declared whilst their climb was going on and so end up POW's in British India with Harrer selfishly trying to escape numerous times without a care for anyone else. All of which ends the first half as both Harrer and Aufschnaiter do eventually escape and after a mammoth and troubled trek they end up making it to the holy city of Lhasa, a place where foreigners are not allowed. ... Read Review


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