The Emma Bovary Trial

Movie · 0h 53m

Starring Natalia Dontcheva, Vincent Sacripanti, Tiago Gomes Rodrigues, Catherine Millet

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.