Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

9.0 1993 100 min

After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in sear…

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Director
Jacques Otmezguine
Writers
Yves Dangerfield, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Otmezguine, Françoise Verny, Isabelle Brault

Cast

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Anne Canovas Leila
Emmanuel Salinger Raoul
Jean-Pierre Cassel Lucien Rameau
Carine Lemaire Monique
Chafia Boudraa Aïcha
Alain Jancy Bourdelle

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