Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

1993· 100 min·

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: Anne Canovas, Emmanuel Salinger, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Director: Jacques Otmezguine