Madame Bovary (1947 film)

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.^[1] It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.^[2]

Madame Bovary
Directed by	Carlos Schlieper
Written by	María Luz Regás
Based on	Madame Bovary 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert
Produced by	Miguel Machinandiarena
Starring	Mecha Ortiz Roberto Escalada Enrique Diosdado Alberto Bello
Cinematography	Bob Roberts
Edited by	Kurt Land
Music by	Isidro B. Maiztegui
Production company	San Miguel Films
Distributed by	Panamericana
Release date	2 April 1947 (1947-04-02)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

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