Elvis and Marilyn (1998)
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.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Armando Manni | Director |
| Armando Manni | Writer |
| Armando Manni | Writer |
| Massimo Torre | Writer |
| Massimo Torre | Writer |
| Enzo Porcelli | Producer |
| Aldo De Scalzi | Composer |
| Pivio | Composer |
| Renato Tafuri | Cinematographer |
| Ugo De Rossi | Editor |
| Marco Dentici | Production Designer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Edyta Olszówka | |
| Goran Navojec | |
| Giorgio Faletti | |
| Toni Bertorelli |
