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Brad Pitt climbs lotsa mountains and meets the young Dalai Lama, but doesn’t carry the audience with him for much of the odyssey in “Seven Years in Tibet.” Despite some magnificent widescreen lensing, faultless ethnographic detail and a timely sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people, director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s true-life tale about a self-obsessed Austrian mountaineer who learns selflessness in the Himalayas too rarely delivers at a simple emotional level. Pitt’s name and the exotic, bigscale nature of the yarn should ensure initial B.O. interest, but pic looks to scale only midrange peaks domestically, with international picking up some of the slack. “Tibet” will also prove an interesting test case for auds’ interest in such subject matter, as Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,” centered specifically on the Dalai Lama, readies for Christmas release.

Annaud’s previous pics (“Quest for Fire,” “The Lover,” “The Bear,” “The Name of the Rose”) have often shown a tendency to get bogged down in local or historical detail at the expense of pure emotional sweep. In “Tibet,” which starts with the hurdle of asking auds to identify with a ruthlessly self-absorbed member of the Nazi Party, the script by Becky Johnston (“The Prince of Tides”) rarely hits the heights of eloquence or poetry needed to engage viewers in the protag’s interior struggle or underpin the visual sweep of the picture. With the first half of the narrative skipping from dateline to dateline as we follow his progress to Tibet, and a good chunk of the dialogue devoted to cultural backgrounding and historical footnoting, Pitt’s character remains a somewhat cold, one-dimensional cipher prior to finally meeting the young Dalai Lama. It’s only then — well over an hour into the movie — that the picture star

Seven Years in Tibet

In the story, Austrians Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in India in an area that is now Gilgit-Baltistan in Kashmir. When World War II begins in 1939, their German citizenship results in their imprisonment in a prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. While in Tibet, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life. Harrer is introduced to the 14th Dalai Lama, who is still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Chinese military campaign in 1950.

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In 1938, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) in a team attempting to summit Nang

1997 American film

Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographicalwar drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer's 1952 memoir of the same name, about his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951. Seven Years in Tibet stars Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, and has music composed by John Williams with a feature performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

In the film, Harrer (Pitt) and fellow Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in the 1930s India. When World War II begins in 1939, their German citizenship results in their imprisonment in a British prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayas. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. There, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life. Harrer is introduced to the 14th Dalai Lama, still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Battle of Chamdo in 1950.

Plot

In 1939, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer leaves behind his pregnant wife to join Peter Aufschnaiter in a team attempting to summit Nanga Parbat in India (now part of Pakistan). When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by the British authorities for being enemy aliens, and are imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand. Harrer's wife, Ingrid, who has given birth to a son he has not seen, sends him divorce papers from Austria, by then annexed by Nazi Germany.

In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross into Tibet. After being initially rejected by the isolated nation, they manage to