Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

1993Directed by Jacques Otmezguine

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Released: September 13, 1993
Runtime: 1h 40m

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Synopsis

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: Jacques Otmezguine
Isabelle Brault
Catherine Breillat
Yves Dangerfield
Françoise Verny

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