![]() ![]() Once there, he tutored the young Dalai Lama. Captured and imprisoned by British troops stationed in India, Harrer escaped from the POW camp and trekked to Tibet. One of Europe's most accomplished alpine explorers, Harrer was trying to climb the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat when World War II began. The movie was adapted by screenwriter Becky Johnston from Harrer's 1953 autobiography of the same name. But the man never talks about his past, he never talks about his roots, he never talks about his family, he never talks about his Germany." "I wanted to invent what Harrer was not saying. ![]() "What fascinated me were the secrets," said Annaud. "The film is definitely what is missing in his book," says Jean-Jacques Annaud, who directed Brad Pitt as Harrer in "Seven Years in Tibet." The revelation about his hidden past only mildly surprised the writer and director of "Seven Years in Tibet," who realized from the start that what makes Harrer's life worth knowing is how much of it is unknown. The makers of the new film "Seven Years in Tibet" unearthed most of them - except one.Īn Austrian mountaineer who befriended the young Dalai Lama, Harrer also was a more fervent Nazi than his memoirs suggest. ![]() Heinrich Harrer had a lot of deep, dark secrets. ![]()
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