Elvis and Marilyn (1998)
Synopsis
The film chronicles the melancholy journey of two celebrity look-alikes chasing their dream of la dolce vita in Italy. Romanian Marilyn Monroe impersonator Ileana and Bulgarian Elvis double Nicolaj win a look-alike contest in Bucharest in which the prize is a summer engagement in a nightclub on Italy's Adriatic coast. The two strangers take off together, communicating in the broken Italian they picked up from TV. When a bureaucratic hitch with Ileana's passport cuts them off at the airport, they cross the border illegally by car, travelling through a part of Yugoslavia devastated by war. They accept hospitality at a military outpost, but the suicide of a colonel there casts suspicion on Ileana. Beaten and afraid, they continue their odyssey across the harsh sunless no-man's-land gradually scarring them both and clouding their hopes. They finally reach Italy, but all is not as promised.
Release Date: 1998-05-08
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Armando Manni
Top Cast
- Edyta Olszówka as Ileana / Merilijn
- Goran Navojec as Nicolaj / Elvjs
- Giorgio Faletti as Gino
- Toni Bertorelli as Colonel
- Julietta Koleva as Eva Petrova
- Saša Vulićević as Goran
- Margareta von Krauss as Ileana's mother
- Mariana Jichich as Nicolaj's wife
- Pierre Laplace as Proudhon
- Massimo Bellini as Francois
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