The Seven Years in Tibet Screenplay and Story Behind the FilmThe Seven Years in Tibet Screenplay and Story Behind the Film

In 1939 Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer set out to climb a Himalayan mountain but ended up a prisoner in a British POW camp. Escaping the camp, he fled to Tibet where he was befriended by and tutored the teenage Dali Lama. Some 50 years later, film director Jean-Jacques Annaud told Harrer's sto