Elise, or Real Life
Directed byMichel Drach
Directed by
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.
working class
racism
working immigrants
love story
algerian diaspora
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