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Seven Years in Tibet

6.0(5)19561h 19m1

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.

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Released
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Language
EN
  • himalaya mountain range
  • tibet
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • mountain climbing

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Director

Hans Nieter

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical1 May 1956
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical17 Apr 1959

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Seven Years in Tibet was released on 1 May 1956.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/7/2025

    7/10

    I though there was something of the Jack Cardiff to the glorious photography in this slightly dramatised documentary about Heinrich Harrer, a man captured by the British in their North Western provinces of India but who, using a remarkably simple disguise, manages to escape with three colleagues. He is a mountaineer, and decides that north into the vast expanse of the Himalayan plateau is his best chance of survival.…

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