Elvis and Marilyn

Elvis and Marilyn — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 8, 1998
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Drama, Comedy
• Director
• Armando Manni

Elvis and Marilyn — Cast

Edyta Olszówka Ileana / Merilijn Goran Navojec Nicolaj / Elvjs Giorgio Faletti Gino Toni Bertorelli Colonel

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Julietta Koleva Eva Petrova Saša Vulićević Goran

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Margareta von Krauss Ileana's mother

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Mariana Jichich Nicolaj's wife