Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs (1993)
1993 · 1h 40m
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 search of oriental fantasies.
Director: Jacques Otmezguine
Writers: Yves Dangerfield, Catherine Breillat, Jacques Otmezguine
Cast
Anne Canovas as LeilaEmmanuel Salinger as RaoulJean-Pierre Cassel as Lucien RameauCarine Lemaire as MoniqueChafia Boudraa as AïchaAlain Jancy as BourdelleMore like this
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