Seven Years In Tibet

SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET, a 1957 documentary, possesses the same name and subject of the 1997 feature starring Brad Pitt. This record of Heinrich Harrer's adventure in Tibet and his friendship with the Dalai Lama makes a marginally interesting companion piece.

In 1939, at the outbreak of WWII, Austrian mountain-climber Harrer is captured and interred in an Indian P.O.W. camp. Harrer escapes from the prison with several other men and, at great peril, crosses the jungles of India and the mountains of the Himalayas. Against the wishes of Tibet's religious leader, the Dalai Lama, Harrer and his companions enter the forbidden country of Tibet, and, eventually, the Holy C...