1970
6.0 (12 votes)
1h 44m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
Port Royal Films
Port Royal Films
Elise, or Real Life (Élise ou la vraie vie)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Michel Drach
Writer: Claire Etcherelli, Michel Drach, Claude Lanzmann
