Elvis and Marilyn

05/08/1998

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1hr 33min

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Drama

,Comedy

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Edyta Olszówka
  • Goran Navojec
  • Giorgio Faletti
  • Toni Bertorelli
  • Julietta Koleva

    Director

  • Armando Manni

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Alia Film
  • Istituto Luce Cinecittà
  • RAI

    Production Countries

  • Italy

LANGUAGES

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • French
  • Italian
  • Romanian