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Cast

Anne Canovas

Anne Canovas

Leila

Emmanuel Salinger

Emmanuel Salinger

Raoul

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Lucien Rameau

Carine Lemaire

Carine Lemaire

Monique

Chafia Boudraa

Chafia Boudraa

Aïcha

Alain Jancy

Alain Jancy

Bourdelle

Crew

Jacques Otmezguine

Jacques Otmezguine

Director

Jacques Otmezguine

Jacques Otmezguine

Writer

Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat

Writer

Yves Dangerfield

Yves Dangerfield

Writer

Isabelle Brault

Isabelle Brault

Writer

Françoise Verny

Françoise Verny

Writer

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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

19930.0 / 10100 min

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.