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Elvis and Marilyn
First aired on May 8, 1998
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Genres: Drama, Comedy

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 Cast: click image to view more
Edyta Olszówka | Ileana / Merilijn
Goran Navojec | Nicolaj / Elvjs
Giorgio Faletti | Gino
Toni Bertorelli | Colonel
Julietta Koleva | Eva Petrova
Saša Vulićević | Goran
Featured Crew
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Bruno Ridolfi | Line Producer
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Ugo De Rossi | Editor
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Massimo Torre | Writer
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Pivio | Music
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Renato Tafuri | Cinematography
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Armando Manni | Director