The Emma Bovary Trial (2021)
• September 15th, 2021 • 0h 53min
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.
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