In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert’s novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and the opera in Rouen.
Release Date: 25 December 1991Runtime: 143 min
Stars:
- Christiane Minazzoli
- Christophe Malavoy
- Florent Gibassier
- François Maistre
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jean Yanne
- Jean-Claude Bouillaud
- Jean-François Balmer
- Jean-Louis Maury
- Lucas Belvaux
- Marie Mergey
- Phillippe Abitol
- Sabeline Campo
- Thomas Chabrol
- Yves Verhoeven
Director: Claude Chabrol
