The Tiger and the Snow

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The Tiger and the Snow

Plot

A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.

Release Year: 2005

Rating: 6.9/10 (6,701 voted)

Critic's Score: 22/100

Director:
Roberto Benigni

Stars: Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi

Storyline
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

Writers: Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami

Cast:

Roberto Benigni

Attilio de Giovanni


Jean Reno

Fuad


Nicoletta Braschi

Vittoria


Tom Waits

Himself
/
Sè stesso


Emilia Fox

Nancy Browning


Gianfranco Varetto

Avvocato Scuotilancia


Giuseppe Battiston

Ermanno


Lucia Poli

Signora Serao


Chiara Pirri

Emilia


Anna Pirri

Rosa


Andrea Renzi

Dottor Guazzelli


Abdelhafid Metalsi

Dottore Salman


Amid Farid

Al Giumeil


Israel Aduramo

Soldato americano


Mohmed Hedi Bahri

Firas scarpe



Details

Official Website:
Pathé [France] |

Release Date: 14 October 2005

Filming Locations: Naples, Campania, Italy



Box Office Details

Budget: $35,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: €14,941
(Netherlands)
(16 April 2006)
(12 Screens)

Gross: $24,000,000
(Worldwide)
(28 December 2006)



Technical Specs

Runtime:


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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Roberto Benigni named his character "Attilio" as a tribute to poet Attilio Bertolucci (1911-2000) father of famous directors Giuseppe and Bernardo Bertolucci.

Quotes:

Attilio de Giovanni:
I told myself: "There must be people whose job it is to use the right words, put things in a way… who when their heart beats, can get other people's hearts to beat."

Attilio de Giovanni:
That day I decided to become a poet.



User Review

Another Benigni classic

Rating: 10/10


Anyone who calls this film superficial, banal or trivial has
spectacularly missed the point and is exactly the same type of person
who was levelling precisely the same kind of criticism at La Vita è
Bella. Now, though I do like Benigni (in my opinion La Vita è Bella is
a masterpiece and films like Il Piccolo Diavolo, Johnny Stecchino and
Il Mostro are exceedingly worthy comedies – that said I thought
Pinocchio was an expensive disaster), I will try to be as objective as
possible. In La Tigre e la Neve, Benigni repeats the masterfully
delicate feat he accomplished in La Vita è Bella: he touches on
complex, spikey issues (in La Vita è Bella it was the holocaust, here
we have the war in Iraq) in a fable-like, simple manner – he doesn't
politicise the film, and he doesn't delight in the gruesome (and very
real) aspects of war. Yet this is NOT trivialisation of the subject
matter. To believe that is to believe that the true horrors of war (or
the holocaust) can only be conveyed on the screen by a
documentary-style approach, and that cannot be the case. Benigni is far
more effective – he does not shock the audience with visual
representations of war, but his comedy in the face of war creates a
subtle paradox that makes the whole film even more touching. La Tigre e
La Neve is a fable about love, love in the face of adversity, stubborn
optimism, hope and desperation and relationships between people of
different races and creeds. Don't expect to see a Michael Moore rant at
the injustice of war – Benigni is far more subtle. Perhaps the only
criticism I have is that Nicoletta Braschi's performance is not always
one hundred percent convincing, but Benigni and Reno more than make up
for it. I truly hope it makes it on an international level – definitely
a film to watch.