The Tiger

The Tiger & The Snow
La tigre e la neve (English: The Tiger and the Snow) is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.
The film is a romantic comedy set in contemporaryRome and in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War. The story, inspired by the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," features singer-songwriter Tom Waits as himself in recurring dream sequences, and a surpriseending. The opening scene is a celebration of love, man's greatest strength, with an abundance of poetic references mentioned in the closing credits.

 March 2003. Attilio de Giovanni (RobertoBenigni), a comical but talented literature professor and the divorced father of two teenage girls, is hopelessly in love with Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's wife in real life), a writer who is thesubject of a recurring dream, featuring a surreal wedding ceremony with poetry verses in the background. Attilio's strenuous courtship is unsuccessful, yet he does not lose hope, despite the fact thatVittoria obviously does not share the same feelings.
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 after18 years 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 Iraqipharmacist, who suggests ancient treatments that keep her alive. Attiliolocates scuba gear (to provide oxygen) and even "a weapon of mass destruction" (a flyswatter).
Attilio then runs the risk of going to the Italian Red Cross HQ in Iraq, obtains medical supplies by posing as a doctor,then brings medicines back to Baghdad. The medical supplies enable Vittoria to make a complete recovery, but when Attilio goes to Fuad's house to tell him about this triumph over adversity, he...