On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio: Gogogo Films, ARTE, CNC, TV5 Monde
- Keyword: literature, trial, censorship, 19th century, classic literature, portrait of an artist, social scandal, book writing, french writer, controversial book, literature history
- Cast: Natalia Dontcheva, Vincent Sacripanti, Tiago Gomes Rodrigues, Catherine Millet, Jacques Rancière, Karl Ove Knausgård