Release Date

08 May, 1998

Runtime

01:33: (HH:MM)

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.

Original Title

Elvjs e Merilijn

Photos

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Actors

Edyta Olszówka

Goran Navojec

Giorgio Faletti

Toni Bertorelli

Julietta Koleva

Saša Vulićević

Margareta von Krauss

Mariana Jichich

Pierre Laplace

Massimo Bellini

Anna Teresa Rossini

Alberto Di Stasio

Marco Previati

Crew

Armando Manni

Massimo Torre

Renato Tafuri

Ugo De Rossi

Aldo De Scalzi

Pivio

Enzo Porcelli

Bruno Ridolfi

Marco Dentici

Metella Raboni

Armando Manni