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Elise, or Real Life

6.0 104 mins Drama   1970
Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)   Port Royal Films  
Director(s): Michel Drach

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.

Casts of Elise, or Real Life

Marie-José Nat

as Elise Le Tellier

Mohamed Chouikh

as Arezki

Jean-Pierre Bisson

as Lucien Le Tellier

Mustapha Chadli

as Mustapha

Alice Reichen

as La grand-mère

Martine Chevallier

as Marie-Louise

Jean-Pierre Darras

as Le commissaire

Yves Barsacq

as Un policier

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