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Seven Years in Tibet is a American biographicalwar drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.

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It is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer's memoir of the same name, about his experiences in Tibet between and Seven Years in Tibet stars Brad Pitt and David Thewlis, and has music composed by John Williams with a feature performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

In the film, Harrer (Pitt) and fellow Austrian Peter Aufschnaiter (Thewlis) are mountaineering in the s India.

When World War II begins in , their German citizenship results in their imprisonment in a British prisoner-of-war camp in Dehradun in the Himalayas. In , Harrer and Aufschnaiter escape the prison and cross the border into Tibet, traversing the treacherous high plateau. There, after initially being ordered to return to India, they are welcomed at the holy city of Lhasa and become absorbed into an unfamiliar way of life.

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