Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.
1st May 1956
70 years ago
1 hour 19 minutes
Finishes at 10:42pm
1 nomination
6.6/10
60%
63%
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