''Elise, or Real Life'' () is a 1970 French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Michel Drach. It was entered into the

1970 Cannes Film Festival The 23rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 18 May 1970. Guatemalan author and Nobel Prize laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias served as jury president for the main competition. The ''Grand Prix du Festival International du Film'', then the ...

Cast

Marie-José Nat Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'' and '' Anatomy ...

as Elise Le Tellier *

Mohamed Chouikh Mohamed Chouikh (born 1943) is an Algerian film-maker and actor. Mohamed Chouikh was born at Mostaganem Mostaganem () is a port city in and capital of Mostaganem (province), Mostaganem province, in the northwest of Algeria. The city, found ...

as Arezki *

Bernadette Lafont Bernadette Lafont (; 28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 feature films. She has been considered "the face of French New Wave". In 1999 she told ''The New York Times'' her work was "the motor of my e ...

as Anna * Jean-Pierre Bisson as Lucien Le Tellier *

Catherine Allégret Catherine Allégret (born 16 April 1946) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.Becker, Frawley (2004) ''And the Stars Spoke Back: A Dialogue Coach Remembers Hollywood Players of the Sixties in Paris'', Sc ...

as Didi * Mustapha Chadly as Mustapha * Alice Reichen as La grand-mère * Martine Chevallier as Marie-Louise, the sister-in-law * Jean-Pierre Darras as Le commissaire *

Yves Barsacq Yves Barsacq (17 June 1931 – 4 October 2015) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 150 films. He is the son of the French-Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the nephew of the French theatre director André Barsacq ...

as Un policier

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* 1970 films 1970 drama films French drama films 1970s French-language films Films directed by Michel Drach 1970s French films {{1970s-France-film-stub