With the splendor of the Himalayas as the cinematic landscape and the sacred legacy of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama as the premise, Seven Years in Tibet is naturally a film of epic proportions. And once he left Tibet, Harrer went on to climb many lofty peaks in countries all over the globe, and later starred as himself in the 1956 version of Seven Years in Tibet, directed by Hans Nieter. The two become lifelong friends, and when Heinrich Harrer finally returned to Europe after war ended, he wrote a riveting account of his adventures, also titled Seven Years in Tibet. The boy takes an instant liking to Harrer, who serves for seven years as his teacher, cultural mentor and confidant. After numerous attempts, he escapes with several other men and flees to Tibet, where he enters the forbidden city of Lhasa, and eventually meets the young Dalai Lama. Based on a true story, the 1997 Jean-Jacques Annaud film stars Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who, during an attempt to scale the Himalayan peak Nanga Parabat, is interned in a World War II POW camp by the British in Colonial India.
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