The Emma Bovary Trial

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

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))

Maurice Nadeau

(Self - Writer (archive footage))

Julian Barnes

(Self - Writer (archive footage))

Isabelle Huppert

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Mia Wasikowska

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

Sophie Barthes

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))

Jean Renoir

(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))