Seven Years in Tibet (1997) on Netflix
PG-1319972h 16mAdventureBiographyDrama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer leaves his pregnant wife Ingrid for an expedition to Nanga Parbat. When World War II begins, the British imprison him and Peter Aufschnaiter as enemy aliens.
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- Rotten Tomatoes58%
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Plot summary
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, is in India in 1939 preparing to climb Nanga Parbat with Peter Aufschnaiter when World War II begins. The British arrest the two as enemy aliens and send them to a prisoner-of-war camp at Dehradun, in the Himalayan foothills. Harrer's wife Ingrid, expecting their child, stays behind in Austria; after the annexation by Nazi Germany she gives birth to a son and sends her husband divorce papers.
Cast
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- Sonam Wangchukas Dalai Lama, 8 Years Old
- Dorjee Tseringas Dalai Lama, 4 Years Old
- Ngawang Chojoras Lord Chamberlain (as Ven. Ngawang Chojor)
- Tom Raudaschlas Lutz Chicken
- Wolfgang Tonningeras Hans Lobenhoffer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
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- In the train station scene Harrer takes the Nazi flag with reluctance. The real-life Heinrich Harrer was in fact a Nazi SS Schutzstaffel NCO, who wrote in his 1938 book, as a member of the German Alpine Association, “We climbed up the North Face of Eiger over the summit and up to our führer.”
- After the Chinese pressured the Indian government to threaten to cut electricity to the set and to refuse the film a banking account, production shifted from Ladakh to Argentina. After release the director confirmed that two crews had secretly shot about 20 minutes of footage in Tibet.
- China condemned the film for its positive portrayal of the 14th Dalai Lama. Annaud, Pitt and Thewlis were initially banned from ever entering China, and all future Sony films were banned from playing there, a message that the party would punish studios even over films never planned for release in China.
