Characters & Themes
Seven Years in Tibet (1956) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1956 · 79 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Hans Nieter
- Starring
- Anton Diffring, Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, breaks out of a British prisoner‑of‑war camp in India and treks northward across the Himalayas into the remote lands of Tibet. There, in Lhasa, he encounters the teenage Dalai Lama and forms a close friendship that shapes his understanding of the region.
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