Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writing credits: Heinrich Harrer (book) and Becky Johnston (screenplay)

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)

Heinrich Harrer leaves his wife and unborn child and journeys to the Himalayas to climb mountains. While he is there, war breaks out and he and his fellow climbers are placed in a prisoner-of-war camp. They escape and he and Peter Aufschnaiter travels to Tibet, where Heinrich becomes a close confidant to Dalai Lama.

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