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The Italian Film Festival has featured award-winning Roberto Benigni each year (Life is Beautiful, Johnny Stecchino and The Monster). He will again burst onto the Festival screen in 2010, staring in The Tiger and the Snow. A love-struck poet travels into the heart of wartime Iraq in hopes of rescuing the woman he loves, in this affectionate tale of love and devotion. In spite of being regarded as a fine poet, kind father to his daughters, a respected lecturer and literary figure to his students Attilio (Benigni) is a complete nuisance in the eyes of his beloved Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni’s real life wife and oft-time co-star). His life is turned upside down when he learns that Vittoria has been injured in an Iraq bombing. Now, despite the chaos sweeping through the country Attilio vows to risk everything in order to travel into the heart of Baghdad and deliver the medicine that will awaken the woman he loves from a potentially eternal slumber. Running time: 115 minutes. |