Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Carine Lemaire · Alain Jancy · Yves Dangerfield · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Isabelle Brault · Chafia Boudraa · Anne Canovas · Emmanuel Salinger · Françoise Verny · Catherine Breillat · Jacques Otmezguine