Seven Years in Tibet
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean-jacques Annaud
Brad Pitt
David Thewlis
B.d. Wong
Major Angphurba Sherpa
Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the autumn of 1939, Heinrich Harrer, the famous Austrian mountaineer, and his countryman Peter Aufschnaiter, set out to climb Nanga Parbat, one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas. The self-centered Harrer, whose sole pre-occupation was the achievement of fame and glory, would experience an emotional awakening on his fantastic journey that would take him from the heights of conquests to the depths of internment in a British prisoner-of-war camp, then from escape and a harrowing two-year trek through the Himalayas to the mysterious Tibetan city of Lhasa. As a stranger in a strange land where few westerners have ever visited, Harrer was befriended by the young Dalai Lama, and was asked to tutor the religious leader in English, geography and the ways of the Western world. He would eventually spend seven years in Tibet, during a period of tremendous political upheaval in that country, graced with friendship and the spiritual enlightenment of the young Dalai Lama.
Cast
Brad Pitt
David Thewlis
B.d. Wong
Major Angphurba Sherpa
Lhakpa Tsamchoe
Choeden Tsering
Ric Young
Lama Champa Tsondu
Philipp Kriechbaum
Ama Ashe Dongtse
Samdup Dhargyal
Zongra Tulku Rinpoche
Tom Raudaschl
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk
Wolfgang Tonninger
Sebastian Zevalia
Lama Jampa Lekshe
Lama Champa Chandu
Victor Wong
Tenzin Gyaltsen Rinpoche
Lama Thupten Nugdup
Sonam Bidhartsang
Lobsang Gendun Rinpoche
Ven Tenzin Jangchub
Ven Ngawang Tenzin Gyatso
Karma Apo-tsang
Sharpa Tulku Rinpoche
Sonam Wangchuk
Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Duncan Fraser
Ven Ngawang Chojor
Dorjee Tsering
Jetsun Pema
Geshe Lobsang Nyma
Wayne Shepherd
Geshe Yeshi Tsultrim
Mako
Gerardo Ebert
Yama Nugdup Cheshatsang
Tsering Wangdue
Benedick Blythe
Kalsang Dhundop Lungtok
Pemba Norbu Sherpa
Daniel Tedeschi
Danny Denzongpa
Crew
Stuart Aikins
Ana Aizenberg
Mercedes Alfonsin
Rick Allen
Peter Allwork
Philip Alton
Jean-jacques Annaud
David Appleby
David Appleby
Eddie Arguelles
Jacques Arnaud
Stacy Arnold
Pete Athans
Ricardo Avelluto
G D Bakshi
Celia Bannerman
Sylvain Bardoux
Veronique Bataille
Leo Baumgartner
Klemens Becker
Steve Beeson
Bi Benton
Barbara Berkery
Michael Besman
Robert Binnall
Jean Black
Christine Blundell
Charles Bodycomb
Noelle Boisson
David Breashears
David Breashears
Jim Brebner
Bertolt Brecht
Olivier Brejoux
Gordon Brunner
Brigitte Cardinal
Tim Cavagin
Dan Cervin
Jeff Charbonneau
Eleanor Chaudhuri
Tenzin Chodak Gyalpo
Jimmy Chow
Dale Clarke
Robin Clarke
Colin Codner
Sidney Cooper
Desideria Corridoni
Maria Teresa Corridoni
Dr. Horacio Cuervo
Francois Daignault
Paul Dallanegra
Sandy De Crescent
Carlos De San Jose
Claude Debussy
Andres P Dominguez
Tommy Dorsey
Kathleen Driscoll-mohler
Arthur Dunne
Laurence Duval Annaud
Roy Easdale
Mark Egerton
Elias Eljadue Castilla
Jasmine Elsworth
Paul Engelen
Lucky Englander
Jonathan Enraght-moony
Jim Erickson
David Fanshawe
David Fanshawe
Pascale Ferradini
Fritz Fleischhacker
Corbin H Fox
Robert Fraisse
Robert Fraisse
Paul Gachter
Giles Gardner
Javier Garrido
Dominique Gentil
Dominique Gentil
Doro Geyer
Philippe Giband
Pablo Gomez
Richard Goodwin
Gastone Grassi
Jack Haddox
Tim Hands
Tarn Harper
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer
Kate Healey
Peter Heslop
Carla Hetland
At Hoang
Peter Holt
Dean Humphreys
Antony Hunt
Malcolm Huse
Trevor Ingman
Gordon Izod
Vincent Jeannot
Andrew Jeffery
Professor Ngawang Jimpa
Priscilla John
Becky Johnston
John Kavanagh
Martin Kenzie
Reginald Keywood
Nawang Khechog
Nawang Khechog
Nawang Khechog
Philip Kohler
James Kusan
Mark Lafbery
Liz Legum
Lotte Lenya
Yungchen Lhamo
Yungchen Lhamo
David Lindsey
Dean Lockwood
Roger Lofting
Ernesto Lopez
Iain Lowe
Lee Lighting Ltd
Alan Macpherson
Francine Maisler
Domenico Mancino
Christine Marier
Caito Lanhoso Martins
Giulia Maura
Andres Mayo
Ignacio Mcburney
Thom Mcintyre
Rakesh Mehra
Jill Meyers
Sascha Mieke
Reg Milne
Philippe Montagny
Catherine Moulin
Robin Mounsey
Justin Muller
Shawn Murphy
G D Murthi
Phuntsok Namgyal Dhumkhang
Phuntsok Namgyal Dhumkhang
John Neufeld
Anne Nevin
Christine Newell
David Nichols
Stefano Nigro
Fred North
Brent O'connor
Mike O'farrell
Graciela Oderigo
Robert Palmer
Pat Pao
Rob Parisien
John Park
John Paterson
Rick Patton
Dwatshang D Pema
Peter Pennell
Marina Peralta Ramos
Grahame Peters
David Philpot
Michael Praun
Tasha Pym
Pierre Queffelean
Maxime Rebiere
Barry Richardson
George Richardson
John S Robertson
Edmon Roch
Julian Rodd
Fabrice Rouaud
Wilhelm Bruckner Ruggeberg
Enrico Sabbatini
Michael Saxton
Paolo Stefano Scalabrino
Brigitte Schmouker
Araceli Segarra
Charles Shavers
Jocelyn Simard
Allen Smith
Allen Smith
Iain Smith
Martin Sosa
Meg Spiers
Victoria Stevens
Diane Summers
Lucinda Syson
Alisa Tager
Sonam Tashi
Ven Tenzin Chogyal
Clementine Terramorsi
Tenzin Tethong
Rakra Tethong Rinpoche
Genevieve Thomas Colvin
Jeff Upton
Jeanne Valentine Viannay
Chris Vickery
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Original Score
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall October 8, 1997
Expanded Release in United States October 10, 1997
Released in United States on Video April 7, 1998
Released in United States November 1997
Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival (Special Screening) November 1-10, 1997.
Completed shooting March 7, 1997.
Began shooting September 30, 1996.
Numerous news reports surfaced in 1997 detailing Harrer's past involvement with the Nazi Party as a member of the Sturmabtelung (the SA) in 1933, and later as a sergeant in the elite Schutzstaffel (the SS). Harrer contends, however, that he joined the SS only for a limited time in 1938 as one of four climbers of the Eiger North Face in the Swiss Alps.
Exclusive engagements in USA October 8, 1997.
Released in United States Fall October 8, 1997
Expanded Release in United States October 10, 1997
Released in United States on Video April 7, 1998
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival (Special Screening) November 1-10, 1997.)
