The tiger and the snow

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Movie
German title The tiger and the snow
Original title La tigre e la neve
Country of production Italy
original language Italian , Arabic , English
Publishing year 2005
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Roberto Benigni
script Roberto Benigni
Vincenzo Cerami
production Nicoletta Braschi
music Nicola Piovani
Kathleen Brennan
camera Fabio Cianchetti
cut Massimo Fiocchi
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The Tiger and the Snow is a 2005 feature film by and with Roberto Benigni .

It is a romantic comedy set in Rome and war-torn Baghdad in the spring of 2003 . The story is told as a double-faced dream with a surprising ending, based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty . This begins right at the beginning with the dreamed wedding scene, where tender love, poetry and music merge.

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Attilio de Giovanni is a comical but talented professor of literature and a divorced father of two teenage daughters. He is hopelessly in love with the author Vittoria, who appears every night in his dreams of a surreal wedding celebration. Attilio's eager courtship for Vittoria remains unsuccessful because she doesn't seem to share his feelings.

Vittoria travels to Iraq to write the biography of the poet Fuad, whom she and Attilio know well. After 18 years in exile in France, the poet returned to his homeland during the war . Shortly afterwards, Vittoria fell seriously ill and Attilio, who had been notified by Fuad, made it to Baghdad thanks to an aid flight from the Italian Red Cross . There he finds Vittoria in a coma in a hospital . Like thousands of Iraqis, she threatens to die from a lack of drugs. Fuad leads Attilio to an old Iraqi pharmacist who suggests a traditional course of treatment to keep her alive. When this does nothing, Attilio makes his way to the headquarters of the Italian Red Cross on his own, where he receives a lot of important medicines . This brings Vittoria back to consciousness. Before Attilio sees her again, he rushes to Fuad, who has now hanged himself. Attilio then comes under Iraqi resistance fighters and is captured by the United States Army . Only when he made a loud reference to his Italian citizenship did he regain freedom.

Back in Italy, however, he ends up in jail for a legal case in which he was already involved before his departure until his lawyer takes him out. Finally there is the opportunity in Rome to see his beloved Vittoria again, who has no idea of ​​Attilio's Iraqi adventures.

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In the dream wedding scene, Tom Waits , who played together with Benigni in Down by Law , appears at the piano and sings the ballad You Can Never Hold Back Spring .

The name of the main character Attilio is a tribute to the late Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci . Thanks to computer graphics, other poets were incorporated into the opening scene: Eugenio Montale , Jorge Luis Borges , Marguerite Yourcenar and Giuseppe Ungaretti .

The Iraq scenes, including Saddam Hussein's monuments, had to be shot in Tunisia .

Towards the end of the film, circus animals that have escaped wander through a Roman residential area. One of these animals is a magnificent tiger that blocks the road in front of Vittoria's car for a short time. It's late spring and pollen that looks like snow is falling from the trees . This scene gave the film its name.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

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  1. ↑ Age rating for The Tiger and the Snow . Youth Media Commission .