Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 13, 1993

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel,Emmanuel Salinger,Carine Lemaire,Chafia Boudraa,Alain Jancy,Anne Canovas

Director

Jacques Otmezguine

Writer

Yves Dangerfield,Isabelle Brault,Françoise Verny,Jacques Otmezguine,Catherine Breillat

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0351709