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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   25,982 votes
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Writers (WGA):

Heinrich Harrer (book)
Becky Johnston (screenplay)

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Release Date:

8 October 1997 (USA) more

Tagline:

At the end of the world his real journey began.

Plot:

True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China's takeover of Tibet. full summary | full synopsis

Plot Keywords:

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Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(25 articles)

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Bad Accents In Film
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User Comments:

An Underrated Pleasure more (95 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brad Pitt ... Heinrich Harrer

David Thewlis ... Peter Aufschnaiter
B.D. Wong ... Ngawang Jigme

Mako ... Kungo Tsarong
Danny Denzongpa ... Regent
Victor Wong ... Chinese 'Amban'
Ingeborga Dapkunaite ... Ingrid Harrer
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk ... Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old
Lhakpa Tsamchoe ... Pema Lhaki
Jetsun Pema ... Great Mother
Ama Ashe Dongtse ... Tashi
Sonam Wangchuk ... Dalai Lama, 8 Years Old
Dorjee Tsering ... Dalai Lama, 4 Years Old

Ric Young ... General Chang Jing Wu
Ngawang Chojor ... Lord Chamberlain (as Ven. Ngawang Chojor)
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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some violent sequences.

Runtime:

136 min

Country:

USA | UK

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud sent a team to Tibet to secretly film footage. About 20 minutes of it made it into the finished film. This was kept secret even after the film's premiere and not known until summer 1999. more

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When everyone is skating, all of them are skating on modern hockey blades. Some of the people can be seen with white plastic blade attachments. more

Quotes:

Heinrich Harrer: In my humble opinion, this is ridiculous.
Peter Aufschnaiter: Well, then, since you're so humble, we won't ask your opinion.
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Movie Connections:

Version of Seven Years in Tibet (1956) more

Soundtrack:

Clair de Lune more


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An Underrated Pleasure, 9 February 1999

"Seven Years in Tibet" was a pleasant surprise. Sporting an Austrian accent that got slammed by some critics, I thought Brad Pitt was pretty good as an arrogant Nazi who finds himself captured by the British during a failed expedition to the Himalayas and is later stranded in Tibet after escaping from a POW camp. He finds his humanity in the forbidden-to-foreigners city of Lhasa, especially after meeting the 14 year old Dalai Lama. Echoes of "Lost Horizon," "The King and I" "Last Emperor" and others abound, but the movie is "old Hollywood" in the best sense with magnificent scenery (widescreen advised: the mountains and countryside of Argentina and Canada stand in for Tibet). The heart of the movie is the relationship between the blond Aryan golden boy and the young "Kundun," with a performance by the young Tibetan actor playing the latter that is so charming he nearly steals the whole film. An engrossing blend of fact and fiction, the picture manages to avoid condescending to the Tibetans and over-reverent preachiness. Wrapped in an excellent production, this epic story makes entertaining viewing. One question: how did the young Dalai Lama come by his love of movies in that remote location?

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