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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Gogogo Films, ARTE, CNC, TV5 Monde
Keywords
- literature
- trial
- censorship
- 19th century
- classic literature
- portrait of an artist
- social scandal
- book writing
- french writer
- controversial book
- literature history
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Top Cast
Natalia Dontcheva as Self - Narrator (voice)
Vincent Sacripanti as Self - Narrator (voice)
Tiago Gomes Rodrigues as Self - Playwright
Catherine Millet as Self - Writer
Jacques Rancière as Self - Philosopher
Karl Ove Knausgård as Self - Writer
Mario Vargas Llosa as Self - Writer
Régis Jauffret as Self - Writer
Top Crew
Audrey Gordon · Director, Writer
Émilie Musset · Writer
Antoine Assayas · Composer
Nadia ben Rachid · Editor
Carine Ruszniewski · Producer
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