'' Escape from Tibet'' (german: Wie zwischen Himmel und Erde; ) is a 2012 Swiss-German-Tibetan Drama film.

Plot

On the roofs of a Tibetan monastery two boys let fly a kite, but suddenly a shot rips the relaxed silence, and one of the two boys gets shot, the "Golden Boy" which is the fictitious successor to the

Dalai Lama Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current Dal ...

. The monks act immediately and bring him out of

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

to secure his body. In the meantime, the

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

ese mountaineer Johanna and her Swiss friend travel to the monastery to stay there for some days. The monks are convinced that Tempa is also close to death by the Chinese government because the orphaned boy was involved as a witness into the assassination. So Johanna is asked by the monks to refuge Tempa and other child refugees to their destination, the Tibetan capital

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level city, prefecture-level Lhasa (prefecture-level city), Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Regio ...

. Problems with the Chinese authorities occur, and Johanna decides to support Tashi, a refugee helpers, and to bring a group of children and Dolma, a widowed Tibetan woman, through the Chinese border controls to the Dalai Lama's residence towards

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks ...

state in Northern India. But Johanna and Meto, a former nun, are captured by the Chinese border controls, and Meto is tortured by the soldiers to betray where the boy is hidden. In the meanwhile, Johanna gets back to the group of refugees ...

Cast

Hannah Herzsprung Hannah Herzsprung (; born 7 September 1981) is a German actress. Biography Hannah Herzsprung is the daughter of actor Bernd Herzsprung and fashion designer Barbara Engel. She debuted as an actress in 1997 in the BR series ''Aus heiterem Himmel ...

as Johanna *

David Lee McInnis David Lee McInnis (born December 12, 1973) is an American actor based in Seoul. He has worked in South Korea since 1999. Early life McInnis is the only child of an American father of German and Irish descent and Korean mother who is a native of ...

as Tashi * Sangay Jäger as Tempa * Lucas Kwan Peterson as Major Wang Bao *

Yangzom Brauen Yangzom Brauen (born 18 April 1980 in Switzerland) is a Swiss actress, activist and writer. Life and work Brauen, the daughter of Swiss ethnologist Martin Brauen and Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen, started her acting career with small role ...

as Dolma * Pema Shitsetsang as Meto *

Carlos Leal Carlos Leal (born 9 July 1969) is a Swiss rapper and actor. Leal was born in Lausanne to Galician immigrants. In 1990, he co-founded Sens Unik. The group produced four gold records and contributed music to the films ''La Haine'' (1995) and '' Neu ...

as Jean-Francois * Mona Petri as Florence

Reception

The Swiss cinema website ''cineman'' described it as "gripping, fateful, human."

Production

''Escape from Tibet'' was filmed at locations in India, Germany and Switzerland at the Eiger glacier, and was produced also by the participation of the Swiss television SRF. It premiered on 31 May 2012 in Switzerland, on 19 July 2012 in Germany, and on 17 May 2013 in Taiwan. On SRF 1 it was shown for the first time on 4 February 2015, and on 16 March 2015 on the German television channel

einsfestival ''One'' (stylized as ''one'') is a German free-to-air television channel owned and operated by the German public-broadcasting consortium ARD. Managed since October 2005 by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on behalf of ARD as a whole, the channel was orig ...

. For international use, the original title may refer to ''Escape from Tibet'' and ''Flucht aus Tibet''.

Release

The film was released under the title ''Flucht aus Tibet - Wie zwischen Himmel und Erde'' in the DVD format (

RC2 In cryptography, RC2 (also known as ARC2) is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Ron Rivest in 1987. "RC" stands for "Ron's Code" or "Rivest Cipher"; other ciphers designed by Rivest include RC4, RC5, and RC6. The development of RC2 was ...

) on 6 December 2012. The home release includes the language version in German in Dolby Digital 5.1.

References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, 1793915 Tibetan-language films German drama films Swiss drama films 2010s German-language films Films about Tibet Films about refugees Films shot in India Films shot in Switzerland Films shot in Tibet 2012 drama films 2012 films 2010s German films