Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Armando Manni
Written : Armando Manni Massimo Torre
Stars : Goran Navojec Toni Bertorelli Edyta Olszówka Giorgio Faletti
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : May 7, 1998
Countries of origin : Italy
Language : Italian French Romanian Serbo-Croatian Bulgarian
Production companies : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Istituto Luce Alia Film
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : May 7, 1998
Countries of origin : Italy
Language : Italian French Romanian Serbo-Croatian Bulgarian
Production companies : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Istituto Luce Alia Film
