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The Tiger and the Snow (2005) on Netflix

NR20051h 50mComedyDramaRomance

Attilio loves Vittoria, a writer who does not return his feelings. She will marry him, she says, only when a tiger walks on snow. She goes to Iraq, where war breaks out.

  • Netflix2.3/5
  • IMDb7.0/1014,897 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes20%

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Plot summary

Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy and is the divorced father of two teenage daughters. He is in love with Vittoria, a writer at his school, and courts her without success. In his dreams they marry; in life she sets one condition, a tiger walking on snow. Vittoria travels to Iraq to write the biography of Fuad, a poet and a close friend of Attilio's who is returning home after eighteen years in France. When the invasion of Iraq reaches Baghdad, Vittoria is badly hurt there. Attilio impersonates a Red Cross surgeon to get onto a flight to Baghdad, set on reaching her side.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

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  • For its Iraq scenes, The Tiger and the Snow shot in Tunisia and borrowed M60A1 Patton tanks from the Tunisian military to stand in for the American M1 Abrams tanks.
  • In The Tiger and the Snow, many of the U.S. soldiers seen on screen were played not by Americans but by Italian extras.

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