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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs (1993)
Directed by Jacques Otmezguine
Overview
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.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Anne Canovas | Emmanuel Salinger | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Carine Lemaire | Chafia Boudraa | Alain Jancy