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3/17/06

BBC NEWS: Benigni shooting Iraq 'comedy'

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Italy: Benigni shooting Iraq 'comedy'

Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni is to make a film about the Iraq war. La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow) is set in Iraq in March 2003 - right at the beginning of the US-led campaign. In spite of the subject matter, Oscar-winner Benigni intends the film - which is due for release in 2005 - to be a comedy.

Benigni plays the part of a poet who is in Iraq by chance and is caught up in the events.

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