Madame Bovary

Synopsis: Television adaptation by Heidi Thomas of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Frances O’Connor. The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-destruction.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2006
Year of production: 2000
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 from 10/4/00.
Subjects: French studies; Literature
Keywords: Flaubert, Gustave; literature - French; television drama

Director

Tim Fywell; Tony Redston

Producer

Bernard Krichefski; Tony Redston

Writer

Gustav Flaubert; Thomas Heidi

Cast

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