Seven years in Tibet ( Seven Years in Tibet ) is a film states-unien of Jean-Jacques Annaud, carried out in 1997, drawn from the autobiographical book éponyme of Heinrich Harrer.

Synopsis

Heinrich Harrer, Mountaineer Austrian, belonged to an germano-Austrian forwarding aiming at climbing the Nanga-Parbat, an inviolate top of the the Himalayas, located in India, at the moment when the Second world war bursts, by giving up its been engaged pregnant in Austria. Captive fact by the English with his/her companions, Harrer succeeds in escaping in 1944. Then begin a long wandering which will carry out it, with his/her friend Peter Aufschnaiter, with Lhassa, the capital of the Tibet, where it will become acquainted with the 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, then 6 years old, of which he will become the friend. This meeting will transform it. The invasion of Tibet by the China in 1950 will oblige it to flee. It leaves the Dalaï Lama with regret. At the time of this separation, Tenzin Gyatso offers one to him limps with music for his/her son and " says to him; That all the travellers find happiness whatever their road. Can they without effort achieve the task which is intended to them. And once returned healthy and safe on bank, they in the joy being joined together with their close relations can. " At the end of film, Heinrich Harrer discovers his/her son… who shared his passion of mountaineer to him, on the image of the Drapeau of Tibet.

Data sheet

• Title: Seven years in Tibet
• original Title: Seven Years in Tibet
• Realization: Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Scenario: Becky Johnston according to the account of Heinrich Harrer
• Production: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Catherine Moulin, Iain Smith and John H. Williams
• Executive producer: Michael Besman, Richard B. Goodwin, David Nichols and Diane Summers
• Production company: Mandalay Pictures, Location & Vanguard Films, TriStar Pictures
• Director of the photography: Robert Mills and David Breashears (not credited)
• Distributive firm: France: Mediterranean Agency of Film Hiring (A.M.L.F.)
• Music: John Williams
• Country:
• Places of turning: British Columbia (Canada), Argentina, England, Austria, Chile, Tibet
• Format: Colors - 2.35:1
• Kind: Venture
• Durée: 139 minutes
• Coming out date: 1997
• All public

Distribution

• Brad Pitt : Heinrich Harrer
• David Thewlis: Peter Aufschnaiter
• STRIP CARTOONS Wong: Ngawang Jigme
• Mako : Kungo Tsarong
• Danny Denzongpa : The regent
• Victor Wong: The chief of the Chinese mission
• Ingeborga Dapkunaite: Ingrid Harrer
• Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk: Dalaï Lama at 14 years
• Lhakpa Tsamchoe: Pema Lhaki
• Jetsun Pema : The mother of Dalaï Lama
• Ama Ashe Dongtse: Tashi
• Sonam Wangchuk : Dalaï Lama at 8 years
• Dorjee Tsering: Dalaï Lama at 4 years
• Ric Young: The General Chang Jing Wu
• Ngawang Chojor: Lord Chamberlain

Anecdotes

• Since this film, Brad Pitt, David Thewlis and Jean-Jacques Annaud are prohibited of Chinese territory: JJ Annaud itself in the no-claims bonus of the DVD of the film

• Following diplomatic pressures probably of Chinese origin, the initial sites of turning in an Himalayan valley in Indian territory did not receive the approval of the authorities. The realizer thus turned the essence of film in Argentine and with the Canada for the scenes of alpinism in high-altitude, like in Austria in the Tyrol.

See too

• Kundun (film)
• Samsâra (film)
• the Cut (film)

External bond

• Seven years in Tibet in Internet Movie Database