Seven Years in Tibet
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 Heinrich Harrer sets out with friend Peter Aufschnaiter to climb one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas. He experiences an emotional awakening on his journey but then is interned in a British prisoner-of-war camp. A two year trek follows his escape and he then enters a land few westerners have visited. A true story based on the best selling book by Peter Heinrich Harrer.
The key to being born again, receiving enlightenment, or undergoing a spiritual transformation is to step aside from the ego. All the religious traditions teach this truth. In Seven Years in Tibet Brad Pitt stars as Heinrich Harrer, a cocky and egocentric Austrian mountaineer whose thirst for fame leads him to abandon his pregnant wife in order to join a 1939 expedition to climb Nanga Parbat, one of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. His dreams of glory are shattered when the team fails in its mission. Meanwhile, World War II has broken out in Europe and Harrer, an enemy alien in a British colony, is imprisoned in a POW camp in India. He escapes and with climbing partner Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis) finds sanctuary in Tibet, "Land of Snows." The two Westerners struggle to adapt to life in the holy city of Lhasa. Peter meets and marries Pema (Lhakpa Tsamchoe), a beautiful Tibetan tailor. Heinrich, who misses his wife and longs to know the son he has never seen, finds fulfillment, meaning, and love in a friendship with the young Dalai Lama (played with incredible vibrancy by Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk). He tutors the 14-year-old boy in Western ways and, in turn, learns much from the holy one about compassion, humility, and slowing down. Heinrich's seven-year idyll is abruptly ended when the Chinese invade Tibet in 1950 and force the Tibetans to sign an agreement surrendering their sovereignty. He feels the deep pain of the Dalai Lama as these peaceful people who reject violence on principle are killed and their monasteries and cities are destroyed. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud subtly conveys Heinrich Harrer's spiritual transformation. By the time the egotistical mountain climber returns home, he is a gentler and more sensitive man, tempered by his contact with Tibetan Buddhism  Brad Pitt ... Heinrich Harrer David Thewlis ... Peter Aufschnaiter B.D. Wong ... Ngawang Jigme Mako ... Kungo Tsarong Danny Denzongpa ... Regent Victor Wong ... Chinese 'Amban' Ingeborga Dapkunaite ... Ingrid Harrer Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk ... Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old Lhakpa Tsamchoe ... Pema Lhaki Jetsun Pema ... Great Mother Ama Ashe Dongtse ... Tashi Sonam Wangchuk ... Dalai Lama, 8 Years Old Dorjee Tsering ... Dalai Lama, 4 Years Old Ric Young ... General Chang Jing Wu Ngawang Chojor ... Lord Chamberlain (as Ven. Ngawang Chojor) Download Torrent 
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