SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET

Seven Years in Tibet



Seven Years in Tibet

Introduction

Seven Years in Tibet, whose original title is Seven Years in Tibet, is a film drama, filmed in 1997 in the United States, in La Plata (Buenos Aires), in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, based on a nonfiction book the same title published by the mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in 1953. The book recounts the experiences of Harrer in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during World War II, the interim period, and the coming release of the Chinese army in Tibet in 1950. The film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and featured performances from Brad Pitt and David Thewlis.

Seven Years to Tibet tell the story of Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter two Austrians, who captured by the English while climbing in northern India in 1939 at the start of World War II, eventually manage to escape across the border and enter Tibet in 1944 across the desolate and dangerous plateau high. In Tibet, after the local attempts to return to India, he finally reached Lhasa where they accepted and become familiar with customs and ways of life.

Discussion

The author, who was a few years before the invasion of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the Tibetan capital, describes in Seven Years in Tibet, My life at the court of the Dalai Lama not only his personal experiences after escaping from a British camp, but describes the look of an outsider to the then completely isolated land beyond the Himalayas.

Harrison describes his escape with several comrades from a British internment camp in India in April 1944. However, his presentation is quite restrained and limited to the description of events, landscapes and people they encountered. It records the march of the refugees through northern India and residence in the border area of western and southern ...