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.
Director: Armando Manni
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Edyta Olszówka as Ileana / Merilijn |
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Goran Navojec as Nicolaj / Elvjs |
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Giorgio Faletti as Gino |
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Toni Bertorelli as Colonel |
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Julietta Koleva as Eva Petrova |
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Saša Vulićević as Goran |
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Margareta von Krauss as Ileana's mother |
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Mariana Jichich as Nicolaj's wife |
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Pierre Laplace as Proudhon |
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Massimo Bellini as Francois |
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Anna Teresa Rossini as Giulia |
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Alberto Di Stasio as Ivan |
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Marco Previati as Arturo |
| Production | Bruno Ridolfi | Line Producer |
| Editing | Ugo De Rossi | Editor |
| Writing | Massimo Torre | Writer |
| Sound | Pivio | Music |
| Crew | Renato Tafuri | Cinematography |
| Directing | Armando Manni | Director |
| Sound | Aldo De Scalzi | Music |
| Production | Enzo Porcelli | Producer |
| Art | Marco Dentici | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Metella Raboni | Costume Design |
| Writing | Armando Manni | Writer |
