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Elise, or Real Life
Film / 1970

Elise, or Real Life

Directed by Michel Drach
Drama

★ 6.2/10Audience rating

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.

The story

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.

Cast

Marie-José NatElise Le Tellier Mohamed ChouikhArezki Bernadette LafontAnna Jean-Pierre BissonLucien Le Tellier Catherine AllégretDidi Mustapha ChadliMustapha Alice ReichenLa grand-mère Martine ChevallierMarie-Louise Jean-Pierre DarrasLe commissaire Yves BarsacqUn policier

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