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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 8, 1998
- Original language
- Italian
- Spoken languages
- Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Italian, Romanian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- RAI,Istituto Luce Cinecittà,Alia Film
- Cast
- Margareta von Krauss,Anna Teresa Rossini,Alberto Di Stasio,Toni Bertorelli,Giorgio Faletti,Massimo Bellini,Pierre Laplace,Marco Previati,Goran Navojec,Mariana Jichichand 3 more
- Director
- Armando Manni
- Writer
- Massimo Torre,Armando Manni
- Producer
- Enzo Porcelli
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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