Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
fiction · 136 min · United States
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Set in: The Himalaya, Tibet and Lhasa, 1939 to 1951
Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer escapes a British internment camp in India and reaches Lhasa, where he befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Where it was filmed
- Uspallata
Las Heras, Mendoza · Argentina
main stand-in for Tibet; Lhasa replica built at the foot of the Andes
Uspallata on MR. ALPS - Mendoza
Argentina
Potala Palace replica in a warehouse outside the city
- Tibet
China
about 20 minutes of footage shot secretly by two crews
- Nepal
Nepal
other footage
- Austria
Austria
other footage
- Canada
Canada
other footage
Filming locations as stated in the sources below. The story may be set somewhere else.
Sources
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