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Meanwhile, political relations with China sour as they make plans to invade Tibet. Soon afterwards, Harrer is invited to the Potala Palace and becomes the 14th Dalai Lama's (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk) tutor in world geography, science, and Western culture. However, he receives a cold letter from his son, Rolf, rejecting Harrer as his father, and this deters him from leaving Tibet. In 1945, Harrer plans to return to Austria upon hearing of the war's end. Harrer opts to remain single, both to focus on his new job of surveying the land and not wishing to experience another failed relation after his wife. Aufschnaiter falls in love with the tailor, Pema Lhaki (Lhakpa Tsamchoe), and marries her. D.Wong) also extends friendship to the two foreigners with gifts of custom-made Western suits. The Tibetan senior official Ngawang Jigme (B.

There, they become the house guests of Tibetan diplomat Kungo Tsarong (Mako). After being initially rejected by the isolated nation, they manage to travel in disguise to the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross into Tibet. Harrer's wife, Ingrid (Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė), who has given birth to a son he has not seen, sends him divorce papers from Austria. When World War II begins in 1939, they are arrested by the authorities for being enemy aliens and imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayan foothills, in the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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 Nanga Parbat in the British Raj (present-day part of Pakistan).

4 Comparisons between the film and the book.

Harrer and Aufschnaiter stay in the country until the Chinese military campaign in 1950. During their time together, Heinrich becomes a close friend to the young spiritual leader. Harrer is introduced to the 14th Dalai Lama, who is still a boy, and becomes one of his tutors. 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. In 1944, Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. 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 the story, Austrians Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) and Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in India in an area that is now Gilgit-Baltistan in Kashmir. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, the score was composed by John Williams and features cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The book was written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer on his experiences in Tibet between 19 during World War II, the interim period, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army's invasion of Tibet in 1950.

Production Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film based on the 1952 book of the same name.