Madame Bovary is a 1947 Argentine historical drama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Carlos Schlieper and starring Mecha Ortiz, Roberto Escalada and Enrique Diosdado. It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.Goble p.159
Plot summary The narrative is introduced in a courtroom where the author, Gustave Flaubert, challenges a decision to ban his novel, Madame Bovary, which has been deemed vile and immoral.
Flaubert argues his case by telling the story of Emma to the court and the audience, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull. She begins a series of passionate but failed affairs, seeking excitement and wealth. With her debts mounting and her lovers gone, Emma is unable to find money to pay them off. She takes arsenic and dies a painful death, after which her husband, Carlos, discovers the truth of her affairs through her love letters. Carlos, heartbroken and devastated, dies in poverty, and their daughter is sent to live with a poor aunt.
The film concludes with the court ruling that the novel can be published, accepting Flaubert's account as the "true story".
Cast Mecha Ortiz as Ema Bovary Roberto Escalada as León Dupuis Enrique Diosdado as Rodolfo Boulanger Alberto Bello as Carlos Bovary Angelina Pagano as Sra Bovary, mother Ricardo Galache as Gustave Flaubert Graciela Lecube as Felicidad Juan Carlos Altavista as Justino María Esther Podestá as Viuda Lefrancois Alejandro Maximino as Monsieur Homais Max Citelli as Sr. Binet Liana Moabro as Sra. Homais Nélida Romero as Artemisa Jorge Villoldo as Coachman
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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