The Tiger and the Snow

La tigre e la neve English The Tiger and the Snow is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.

Rome, March 2003. Attilio de Giovanni Roberto Benigni, a comical but talented literature professor and the divorced father of two teenage girls, is hopelessly in love with Vittoria Nicoletta Braschi, Benignis wife in real life, a writer who is the subject of a recurring dream, featuring a surreal wedding ceremony with poetry verses in the background and the wife suddenly turning into a kangaroo. Attilios strenuous courtship is unsuccessful, yet he does not lose hope, despite the fact that Vittoria obviously does not share the same feelings. She tells him that she will agree to marry him only when she sees a tiger walking on the snow.Vittoria leaves to go to Iraq to write the biography of the poet Fuad Jean Reno, a close friend of Attilio who is returning to his country afteryears in exile in France. Vittoria is wounded during the Iraq War and Attilio manages to reach Baghdad with the intention of saving her life. He finds Vittoria in an Iraqi hospital lying in a coma like thousands of Iraqis, she is in danger of dying from lack of medicine. Fuad directs Attilio to an old Iraqi pharmacist, who suggests ancient treatments that keep her alive. Attilio locates scuba gear to provide oxygen and even a weapon of mass destruction a flyswatter, one example of the films antiwar stance. ........

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