1997 · adventure · drama · history
Seven Years in Tibet
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud2h 16m1997
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Our read: Seven Years in Tibet (1997) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded adventure · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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