Characters & Themes
Madame Bovary (1947) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 82 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Carlos Schlieper
- Starring
- Juan Carlos Altavista, Alberto Bello, Graciela Lecube, Ricardo Galache, Mary Encina, Roberto Escalada
Set in 1857 Paris, the trial of French writer Gustave Flaubert becomes a vehicle for recounting the true story behind his novel Madame Bovary. He describes Emma Bovary as a sensitive yet capricious woman whose desperate attempts to escape provincial bourgeois life lead to affairs, debt, family ruin, disgrace and ultimately tragedy.
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