Elvis and Marilyn
6.8
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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Cast
24 people
Edyta Olszówka
Ileana / Merilijn
Known for
1983
Ladies
Goran Navojec
Nicolaj / Elvjs
Known for
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Papillon
Pivio
Enzo Porcelli
Armando Manni
Giorgio Faletti
Gino
Known for
The Night Before the Exams
Concrete Romance
Aldo De Scalzi
Bruno Ridolfi
Toni Bertorelli
Colonel
Known for
The Young Pope
The Passion of the Christ
Massimo Torre
Renato Tafuri
Julietta Koleva
Eva Petrova
Also in
The Foreigner
Armando Manni Director · Massimo Torre Writer Ugo De Rossi Editor
First release May 8, 1998 · Produced in Italy · Languages Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Italian, Romanian
Production
Alia Film
Production
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Production
RAI
Production
Istituto Luce
Production · Distribution
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana
Production
Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Elvjs e Merilijn
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Bulgarian · Croatian · French · Italian · Romanian
Release dates
Italy · May 8, 1998
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
November 8, 2000
Greece
November 16, 1998 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
October 11, 2000 · European Film Festival
South Korea
October 1, 1999 · Pusan International Film Festival
Türkiye
May 2, 1999 · Istanbul Film Festival
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