Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

Name: Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
Released: 1993-09-13
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Anne Canovas, Emmanuel Salinger, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Carine Lemaire, Chafia Boudraa

19931h 40mFrench

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.

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StatusReleased

Release Date1993-09-13

DirectorJacques Otmezguine

ScreenplayJacques Otmezguine, Catherine Breillat, Yves Dangerfield