Seven Years in Tibet

Arrogant but brilliant Heinrich Harrer is a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of Allied forces as a prisoner of war. Ingenuity allows Heinrich to escape, and he and fellow escapee Peter Aufschnaiter make their way to the Forbidden City in Tibet, where Peter finds a wife and Heinrich befriends the Western culture-obsessed teenage Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of his Buddhist nation.