La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) is a 2005 Italian movie starring and directed by Roberto Benigni.

The film is a romantic comedy set in contemporary Rome and in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War. The story is told as a double-faced dream with a surprise ending, inspired by the tale of "Sleeping Beauty". The memorable initial scene moves the audience as a celebration of love, man's greatest strength, with an abundance of poetic references mentioned in the closing credits.

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? Written by