(Elvjs e Merilijn)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Italy

Genres:

Drama,

Comedy

Runtime:

93 minutes

Year:

1998

Directors:

Armando Manni

Production companies:

Alia Film,

Istituto Luce Cinecittà,

RAI

Actors:

Ileana / Merilijn

Nicolaj / Elvjs

Gino

Colonel

Eva Petrova

Crews:

Director

Writer

Cinematography

Editor

Music