Madame Bovary, That's Me

1h 20m
Drama
10

Anna, a stay-at-home mom stifled by the tedium of domestic life, becomes obsessed with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and yearns for her own grand romance. In a bid to escape her loneliness she splurges her savings on fashion and cosmetics and arranges a secret tryst, only to find that reality can never match her daydreams, and she must choose between her fantasies and her family.

Cast

Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
Anna
Tomasz Grochoczyński
Tomasz
Krystyna Janda
Krystyna
Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska
Anna's Mother
Marcin Wicinski
Marcin

Crew

Zbigniew Kaminski
Director, Writer
Zdzislaw Kaczmarek
Writer, Director of Photography
Elżbieta Kurkowska
Editor
Elżbieta Karwańska
Production Design
Anna B. Sheppard
Costume Design
Marek Dobrowolski
Set Decoration
Ewa Kowalska
Set Decoration
Andrzej Szczypiorski
Idea
Jerzy Müller
Art Direction

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