Type: Biographical, Drama
Release Year: 1997
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Duration: 2 hrs 16 mins
This movie recounts the experiences of Heinrich Harrer had in Tibet who was an avid mountaineer. He and his friend Peter Aufschnaiter escape from a British internment camp in 1943 and travel all across the Tibetan landscape experiencing their culture, religion, politics and society. Harrer also becomes a tutor and close confidant to the 14th Dalai Lama and soon Tibet gets into a political turmoil which he witnesses.