Hello All!  Yesterday my wife and I saw a new movie with some Musical
Box scenes.  There are 5 or 6 sections, always a few seconds long, with
a middle sized box (more or less 10 inches long, 6 deep and 5 high).
It seems to me to be with a 72-note movement (Reuge ?).  I was not
able, of course, to count the notes of the comb.  The box was built in
East Asia style.

The authentic story plays in and after the second World War.  An
Austrian mountain climber (Heinrich Harrer) was arrested by the British
at the beginning of the WW-2 in North India.  After a few years in a
POW camp he escaped with a friend to Tibet.  With much luck he rose to
become an adviser and friend of the Dalai Lama.  The Dalai Lama is the
highest priest of the Lamaist religion and, in former times, the
governmental ruler in Tibet.

Heinrich Harrer lived there 7 years.  The Dalai Lama was a child in
that time, interested in all that came out of the West.  A Musical Box
especially enthused him.  When Heinrich Harrer went home to Austria
around 1951 he got the Musical Box as a gift from the Dalai Lama.
I have translated the title of the movie directly from German into
English.  Maybe the original English or American title is different.

Regards, Hauke Marxsen