Film

Elvis and Marilyn

1998 · 1h 33m · Drama · Comedy

IMDb

6.9

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.

Edyta Olszówka

Ileana / Merilijn

Goran Navojec

Nicolaj / Elvjs

Giorgio Faletti

Gino

Toni Bertorelli

Colonel

Julietta Koleva

Eva Petrova

Saša Vulićević

Goran

Margareta von Krauss

Ileana's mother

Mariana Jichich

Nicolaj's wife

Pierre Laplace

Proudhon

Massimo Bellini

Francois

Anna Teresa Rossini

Giulia

Alberto Di Stasio

Ivan

Marco Previati

Arturo

• Armando ManniDirector · Writer
• Massimo TorreWriter
• Enzo PorcelliProducer
• Ugo De RossiEditor

Release date

May 8, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

Italian

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama, Comedy