Brad Pitt, one of the most recognized actors in Hollywood history and one of the most talented of his generation, Entry into China was banned for almost 20 years for a film in which he starred in 1997. A film within his filmography based on a historical event in the mid-20th century Chinese government to put the performer in such a category who remembers this film as a wonderful experience.
They premiered in 1997 “Seven Years in Tibet”, a film directed by Jean Jacques Annaud and that had the aforementioned Pitt as its main protagonist. This feature film tells the story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer who left his family in 1939 for an expedition to the Himalayas.
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If that Second World War explodes, Heinrich and his companions were captured by the English troops. Years later, in 1944, he managed to escape and reached the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, where he met and he befriended a young Dalai Lama. The two became friends before the invasion of China’s People’s Liberation Army in 1950.
The Experience for Brad Pitt was unforgettable as he revealed in an interview with Interview Magazine: “It’s two hours for the audience though for me it is half a year of life. And in this particular one being in another culture for so long You couldn’t help but walk out there with something special.”
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The film was banned across China by Beijing censors for portraying the country and the military in a negative light.
not only to “Seven Years in Tibet”; So ‘kundun‘, by Martin Scorsese, was also restricted. For this reason, Brad Pitt was barred from entering China from 1997 to 2014or in which Join Angelina Jolie in Shanghai in the promotion of his film ‘Malfica’.