Le secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

Le secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

100 mins | Sept. 13, 1993

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.

Le secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

100 mins | Sept. 13, 1993

Le secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
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.
Producers
Original title Le secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
Directors Jacques Otmezguine
Writers Isabelle Brault, Yves Dangerfield, Jacques Otmezguine, Françoise Verny, Catherine Breillat

Cast

Anne Canovas

as Leila

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Lucien Rameau

Carine Lemaire

as Monique

Chafia Boudraa

as Aïcha

Alain Jancy

as Bourdelle