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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs (1993)

Directed by Jacques Otmezguine

· 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.

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Cast

Crew

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

Details

Release date
1993-09-13
Runtime
1h 40m
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French