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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

1947 · 82 min · ★ 6.1 · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Carlos Schlieper · Written by Ariel Cortazzo

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