Seven Years in Tibet
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life. From TMDB
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45 of 45 · most liked firstI was born in 1980... I'm choosing one movie per day from each year to today. Seven Years in Tibet Without this movie… most people would know nothing of the Dalai Lama or the heartbreaking history of Tibet.. Everybody should see this movie! 🎬🎥🍿 #filmsky #moviesky #moviechallenge Day 18/45 1997
unlabelledView post →I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈 Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
unlabelledView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day 5 ~ Someone walking or running a long distance in a movie 🎬 Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
unlabelledView post →Sitting down for a memorial movie night for Robert Redford. Gonna kick it off with Seven Years in Tibet.
unlabelledView post →Kristen Dunst is Lee, the war photographer, in Civil War, who it is noted has the same first name as the WW2 photographer that Kate Winslet is playing in the movie Lee. This is some real Seven Years in Tibet/Kundun stuff. Volcano/Dante’s Peak. Things of that nature
unlabelledView post →It’s our fifth film set in China, along with Seven Years in Tibet, Ip Man, Mulan, and Shang-Chi. #HATM #Bloodsport
unlabelledView post →Yeah. If they ever make a movie of that book... do not invest in it. It will flop bigger than Seven Years in Tibet.
unlabelledView post →26. OUT OF AFRICA (1985) - How did this movie win Best Picture? Streep’s Dutch accent is giving Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet. Redford plays a character originally presented in the book as a blue-blooded Englishman as just Robert Redford. Hemingway he ain’t, Bob’s a soft boy.
unlabelledView post →I remember the scene in the movie ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ where Buddhist monks are shown rescuing earthworms from a future building site, portrayed as objects of ridicule. Let us all be friends of worms, beetles and other small beings.
unlabelledView post →I'm now giggling to myself thinking of someone not paying much attention & canoodling/fooling around through a movie, but always describing it framed in those terms. "I... uh... must have seen a different "Seven Years in Tibet" than you did."
unlabelledView post →1. Arrival 2. Seven Years in Tibet 3. Dunkirk 4. Superman 5. How to train your dragon #MovieRanking #movieranking #filmsky
unlabelledView post →I was thinking that, like I remember rewatching that Seven Years in Tibet movie and realizing it was all one giant anti-Chinese Communism propaganda film. They romanticized the FUCK out of Tibetan Buddhism/weaponized Tibet against China like crazy in the 90s
unlabelledView post →Now watching: Seven Years in Tibet (1997). I didn't realize it was this old. Wow.
unlabelledView post →When your knowledge of China/Tibet is based on the 1997 film, Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt.
unlabelledView post →My ★★★ review of Seven Years in Tibet on Letterboxd boxd.it/5M86SB
unlabelledView post →I try. I also have similar questions about colonial Nepal, knowing about this era in the region mostly from Seven Years in Tibet. This film makes it seem much more lawless.
unlabelledView post →Definitely scary. I haven't seen the film but I read the book Seven Years In Tibet coming on for 50 years ago - I was reading T. Lobsang Rampa books about Tibet around the same time, but for the comedy value, even as a young teen it was obvious to me they were fraudulent...
unlabelledView post →Brad Pitt's German accent in Seven Years In Tibet is eternally my platonic ideal of Bad Movie Accents™.
unlabelledView post →Best known for his films Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, Seven Years in Tibet and Wolf Totem, the first film of Jean-Jacques Annaud #botd Black and White in Colour, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
unlabelledView post →The film 'Seven Years in Tibet' opens with English authorities interning German alpinists because their nations are at war. While not every Russian in Europe should be detained, Russia consistently declares it is at war with NATO. Why, then, do we continue to issue them visas?
unlabelledView post →「セブン・イヤーズ・イン・チベット」 eiga.com/l/1Y2m I watched "Seven Years in Tibet" It is a great movie!
unlabelledView post →Seven Years in Tibet (1997) is a visually stunning & ambitious film. It offers a great depiction of Tibetan culture and lifestyle while highlighting the impact of Westernization. The acting is solid and the story keeps your attention. 7/10, @letterboxd.social review below #bradpitt boxd.it/9bltKb
unlabelledView post →Seven Years in Tibet (1997) Movie-making and writing-wise this is all good and competent but I feel like there's a massive "the main characters of this movie are literally n@zis" elephant that needs to be addressed. Why did Mom recommend me this movie? 3/5
unlabelledView post →Watching my favorite Christmas movie Seven Years in Tibet. Cannot believe people are wasting time with movies that only have one Christmas in them.
unlabelledView post →Excluding the ultra famous ones like Star Wars and co. Here is a list (roughly sorted in favourites) - A Few Good Men - Ghost in the Shell (1995 anime movie) - Blade Runner (original one) - Gattaca - Seven Years in Tibet - Twelve Monkeys
unlabelledView post →A quick piece on Seven Years in Tibet. Amazing movie. Good to stop for a while in stormy times like now.
unlabelledView post →I posted this silly joke on Twitter and it indirectly ended up with a friend blocking me: As a prequel to Seven, Seven Years in Tibet works so well. The only weird thing is how Brad Pitt’s accent changes from one movie to another.
unlabelledView post →Watching now Seven Years in Tibet. The National Geographic feature is about this very subject by the very man, Heinrich Harrer whose life the movie is based on. I have the July, 1955 issue which published Harrer's fascinating account.
unlabelledView post →Movie trivia: Brad Pitt actually spent less than seven years in Tibet while filming Seven Years in Tibet.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Seven Years in Tibet 1080p (iTunes)(UK) £2.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 6.8 Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk
unlabelledView post →SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET (1997) If you've ever wondered why the Dalai Lama was friends with a Nazi, oh boy, do I have the movie for you! #365Movies 114
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Seven Years In Tibet (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Canada) for C$4.99 Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1079716-se...
unlabelledView post →Thanks to ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ now every time I see “Himalayas” I automatically read it in Brad Pitt’s awful fake German accent in that movie.
unlabelledView post →Seven Years in Tibet is the sanitized and romanticized film version of the self-promoting memoir of an elite Nazi who became a tutor and advisor to the spiritual and political leader of one of the last slave societies on the planet Earth.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Seven Years In Tibet (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €4.99 Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1079716-se...
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Seven Years In Tibet (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €4.99 Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1079716-se...
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Seven Years in Tibet is available today on (iTunes) (US) for $4.99 Cast: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1079716-se...
unlabelledView post →Right?!? Also just finished watching Seven Years in Tibet with my 15 year old daughter. I've told her for years how much of an impact that movie made on my life, and it's now available to stream on Netflix for the first time.
unlabelledView post →Brad Pitt is acclaimed Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer who leaves his expectant wife to climb in the Himalayas. A couple of high-altitude mishaps and the commencement of WWII see him and colleague Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) interred by the British and confined to a POW camp. After a few failed attempts, the pair manage to escape and after some perilous trekking through the hostile wilderness, they find themselves at the gates of the holy city of Lhasa. Foreigners are not especially…
positive · AI labelView post →I saw "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997) with a friend and she renamed it "Seven years in a movie theater."
unlabelledView post →Huh, just did some more reading on that… fascinating! Hadn’t thought of that movie in a long time and actually remember seeing it in theaters with my parents as a kid. It came out right around the same time as Seven Years In Tibet, which you can easily find for purchase now.
unlabelledView post →Seven Years in Tibet is the only movie I've ever walked out on. I saw it (well some of it) in a cinema in HK since I lived there when it was released. I left right as the monks were hitting panic stations and rescuing worms from a ditch being dug for construction of a temple(?).
unlabelledView post →One of the films I'd hoped to watch last night.... You can see why Netflix then suggested #SevenYearsInTibet #film https://open.spotify.com/album/70iCI16xKlhPlJJT7OIKGH?si=p5T5X-UVSMO_W0uXV_nDBA
unlabelledView post →I needed a non subtitles something to watch last night while ironing. Ended up with #SevenYearsInTibet #BradPitt . Then daughter came in & also started watching. Then I got tired, it was so long. So I might need to rewatch a segment. Afterwards I think we were full of historical thoughts, and also " why did we stay up so late?" It's a 1997 film so if quiet a work today I'll be googling our questions! #Tibet https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120102/
unlabelledView post →Twelve years in the Tibet area, 1939-1951 “Seven Years in Tibet” (1997) is a biographical historical drama about Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) and his time in Tibet and friendship with the Dalai Lama, a boy, just before & during WW2, as well as the build-up to the invasion of Tibet in 1950 by Communist Chinese forces and the immediate aftermath. David Thewlis is on hand as Heinrich’s German mountaineer friend. The movie’s similar to other realistic walk-to-salvation…
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