Madame Bovary

Overview

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.

Release date

Apr 2, 1947

Rating

5.8 / 10

Runtime

1 hours 22 minutes

Genres

• Drama
• Romance