@tibetinhistory The clip is from the 1997 film ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, based on the true story of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer(played by Brad Pitt). The film chronicles his escape from a British POW camp in India during World War II and his subsequent journey to Tibet, where he befriended the young 14th Dalai Lama. Harrer experienced life in independent Tibet and later witnessed the early stages of Tibet’s invasion by the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong. The Tibetan officia