Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Bbc Video, 2012
EDITION
Widescreen edition
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (approximately 158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
0780697979 10723639, 9780780697973, 0780697979 :, 883929252466
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Masterpiece Theatre television adaptation broadcast in February, 2000
With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Lon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the affair with body and soul
Based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert
Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins, Frances O'Connor
DVD
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing