Seven Years In Tibet

Adventure, Biography

Brad Pitt	Heinrich Harrer
David Thewlis	Peter Aufschnaiter
B.D. Wong	Ngawang Jigme
Danny Denzongpa	Regent
Ingeborga Dapkunaite	Ingrid Harrer
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk	Dalai Lama (14)
Lhakpa Tsamchoe	Pema Lhaki
Ama Ashe Dongtse	Tashi
Ric Young	General Chang Jing Wu
Mako	Kungo Tsarong
Victor Wong	Chinese 'Amban'
Jetsun Pema	Great Mother
Mako Jamyang
Jamtsho Wangchuk

Director	Jean-Jacques Annaud; Jean-Jaques Annaud
Producer	Jean-Jacques Annaud; Michael Besman; John H. Williams; Ian Smith
Writer	Heinrich Harrer; Becky Johnston
Cinematography	Robert Fraisse
Musician	John Williams

Seven Years in Tibet is the story of two Austrian mountaineers, Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) who have been imprisoned by the British in northern India at the beginning of World War Two in 1939. Eventually the two escape into Tibet in 1944. At first the two are ordered to return to India but are then welcomed at Lhasa. At Lhasa, Harrer meets the Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk), who is still a young boy, and becomes his tutor. The two become close friends. The two Austrians are forced to leave Tibet in 1950 as a result of the Chinese invasion.