Movie Description
Elvjs e Merilijn
(1998)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Armando Manni
- Producer : Enzo Porcelli
- Writer : Massimo Torre,Armando Manni
- Editor : Ugo De Rossi
- Cast : Edyta Olszówka,Goran Navojec,Giorgio Faletti,Toni Bertorelli,Julietta Koleva,Saša Vulićević,Margareta von Krauss,Mariana Jichich,Pierre Laplace,Massimo Bellini,Anna Teresa Rossini,Alberto Di Stasio,Marco Previati
Cast
Ileana / Merilijn
Nicolaj / Elvjs
Gino
Colonel
Eva Petrova
Goran
Ileana's mother
Nicolaj's wife
Proudhon
Francois
Giulia
Ivan
Arturo
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Facts
Original TitleElvjs e Merilijn
Status Released
Release Information
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1998-05-08
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 33m
Production CompaniesAlia Film,Istituto Luce Cinecittà,RAI
Genres
- Drama
- Comedy
