The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)

09/15/2021 (FR) • 53m

Documentary, History, TV Movie

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Natalia Dontcheva

Self - Narrator (voice)

Vincent Sacripanti

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tiago Gomes Rodrigues

Self - Playwright

Catherine Millet

Self - Writer

Jacques Rancière

Self - Philosopher

Karl Ove Knausgård

Self - Writer

Mario Vargas Llosa

Self - Writer

Régis Jauffret

Self - Writer

Nathalie Sarraute

Self - Writer (archive footage)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

literature

trial

censorship

19th century

classic literature

portrait of an artist

social scandal

book writing

french writer

controversial book

literature history

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