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Elvis and Marilyn (1998)
Directed by Armando Manni
Drama, Comedy · 1h 33m
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
Edyta Olszówka
Ileana / Merilijn
Goran Navojec
Nicolaj / Elvjs
Giorgio Faletti
Gino
Toni Bertorelli
Colonel
Saša Vulićević
Goran
Pierre Laplace
Proudhon
Anna Teresa Rossini
Giulia
Crew
- Director
- Armando Manni
- Writer
- Massimo Torre, Armando Manni
- Editor
- Ugo De Rossi
- Producer
- Enzo Porcelli
Details
- Original title
- Elvjs e Merilijn
- Release date
- 1998-05-08
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Italian, Romanian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Alia Film, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, RAI