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8.0 1h 33m

Elvis and Marilyn

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.

Top Cast

  • Edyta Olszówka

    Edyta Olszówka

    Ileana / Merilijn

  • Goran Navojec

    Goran Navojec

    Nicolaj / Elvjs

  • Giorgio Faletti

    Giorgio Faletti

    Gino

  • Toni Bertorelli

    Toni Bertorelli

    Colonel

  • Julietta Koleva

    Julietta Koleva

    Eva Petrova

  • Saša Vulićević

    Saša Vulićević

    Goran

  • Margareta von Krauss

    Margareta von Krauss

    Ileana's mother

  • Mariana Jichich

    Mariana Jichich

    Nicolaj's wife

  • Pierre Laplace

    Pierre Laplace

    Proudhon

Overview

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.

Rating

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