Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

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Genre : Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
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Director : Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars : Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong, Mako
Plot : Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian climber and Nazi supporter, breaks out of a British POW camp in India and treks to the holy city of Lhasa where he's employed as an instructor to the young 14th Dalai Lama and soon becomes his close confidante.