Aufschnaiter, the guide, meets a local woman tailor Lhakpa Tsamchoe and marries her, and we gather from soulful looks that Harrer would have liked to marry her himself, but the Harrer character is not forthcoming. Brad Pitt plays him at two speeds: Cold and forbidding at first, and then charming and boyish.
He might have been more convincing if he'd been played by, for example, Thewlis. The film shows the behavior of the Red Chinese toward Tibet as cruel and gratuitous. Why the Chinese so valued this remote kingdom is a mystery; maybe it was a threat to self-righteous, lockstep Marxism. The film shows how Tibet was betrayed from without and within, and then the Dalai Lama, now 21, flees into long years of exile.
He has a more complex face for me, now that I have seen the torturous journey from his childhood. I wish I had learned more about Tibet: What were the ethnic ramifications, for example, of the marriage between the tailor and the mountain climber?
How easily was the language barrier overcome? Why were the Dalai Lama's advisers willing to allow him to come under the influence of a foreigner? How did the boy overcome his godlike upbringing to become open and curious to the outside?
These questions are not exactly answered. But the film does deal with one issue that has been publicized recently: The fact, unknown to the filmmakers when they began, that Harrer had been a Nazi party member since Voice-over dialogue establishes him as a Nazi early in the film, and another line later says he "shuddered to recall'' his early errors. The information about Harrer should have come as no surprise; would the Nazis have risked letting a non-party member win the glory of conquering Nanga Parbat?
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer. The Tibetan government-in-exile maintains that Tibet is an independent state under unlawful occupation. The question is highly relevant for at least two reasons. Where did they film 7 Years in Tibet? Seven Years in Tibet was shot on location in Argentina and British Columbia, Canada and features stunning climbing sequences, breathtaking landscapes, and spectacular sets.
But at the film's heart lies a tale of a Western man spiritually transformed by his contact with the Eastern culture of Tibetan Buddhism. How is Tibet today? Tibet's historical territory would make it the world's 10th largest nation.
Today it is under China's occupation and has been divided up, renamed and incorporated into Chinese provinces see more maps of Tibet here. How many Tibetans were killed by the Chinese? The 14th Dalai Lama has alleged that 1. Why did China invade Tibet? In , the newly established Chinese Communist regime decided that Tibet must become a permanent part of the People's Republic of China and launched an invasion.
For China, possessing Tibet gave access to rich natural resources and allowed it to militarise the strategically important border with India. What happened to herrich? At the outbreak of war in , Harrer was on a German expedition in Kashmir, planning an assault on the unclimbed Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest peak, for Captured and subsequently interned at the Dehra Dun camp, in the shadow of the Himalayas, he twice escaped and was recaptured.
War breaks out while he's gone and he is placed in a prisoner-of-war camp. Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian mountaineer who is forced to be a hero for the Nazi propaganda. He leaves Austria in to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama.
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