Day of the Tigre (2023)

Tigru (2023)

80 min. - Drama - N 15 - 29.09.2023

Synopsis: The story of Vera (Cătălina Moga), a veterinarian working for a provincial zoo. Following a personal tragedy, Vera has become more and more estranged from her husband, Toma (Paul Ipate), and when she realises that he has been cheating on her, her distress leads to the escape of Rihanna, an adult tiger that has just been bought by the zoo. As the entire town hurries to take part in the desperate search for the tiger, Vera will go through various misadventures that will challenge her entire view on life.

Director: Andrei Tănase

Writer: Andrei Tănase

Stars: Cătălina Moga, Paul Ipate

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Casting:

	Cătălina Moga	Vera
	Paul Ipate	Toma
	Alex Velea

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Produced By

Domestic Film (România) / Altamar Films (Franța) / Graal (Grecia)
susținut de CNC, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde CNC - Institut français, Greek Film Centre, ERT, Eurimages, Creative Europe - MEDIA Sub-programme & TorinoFilmLab.

Production info

Budget: 1 milion euro
Shootings for 26 days, between 19 july - 27 august 2021, in Parcul Național Comana, Târgu Mureș, București.
Shootings for 8 days with a real tigre, brought over from France. with a big-cat handlers, Thierry le Portier, who also worked on productions such as Gladiator and Life of Pi

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Festivals, Awards

2023 - TIFF - Romanian Days Award for First Feature

Trivia

Inspired by a real event that took place in 2011 in the city of Sibiu

Andrei Tănase about film:
“I was shaken by the images broadcasted on the news, with the lifeless body hauled in an old pickup truck while various passers-by took pictures. At first, I found them utterly sad [...] but then I realised that that grand beast, which had lived chained up in a cage in a provincial zoo, enjoyed a few hours of freedom, maybe for the first time in its life. It breathed the air of the forest and died free,”

Articles

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