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.
Directed by Armando Manni
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Cast
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
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