Tiger and the Snow, The (2005) - Details

AKA : Tigre e la neve, La

Attilio is a divorced Italian poetry professor with two teenage daughters. He is a whimsical, talkative dreamer who is also madly in love with a beautiful woman names Vittoria. The latter, who collaborates with Fuad, a great Iraqi poet and one of Attilio's closest friends, follows him to Bagdad where war has broken out. A few days later, Fuad calls Attilio to break a very bad news to him: Vittoria has been seriously wounded by an explosion and is bound to die due to the lack of treatment available. From this moment on, all Attilio thinks about is reaching Bagdad and save his lady friend's life.