Madame Bovary - Season 1 (1964)

For Emma Bovary, life has always been a romantic dream. As the new Madame Bovary, however, she is soon to learn that marriage is a demanding reality.

Emma is tempted away from her marriage by the dashing Rodolphe.

Initially, Emma is able to continue a double life of extreme contrasts stolen time spent with her lover, Rodolphe, writing to him or dreaming about him is the counterpoint to domesticity. Charles' love for Emma makes him oblivious to her faults and his pride obliges him to indulge her naïveté in purchasing clothes and trappings that are beyond their means. The Draper, M. Lheureux, supplier of these luxuries, increases his profits by luring customers into his web of usury. As Emma's spending expands into expensive presents for her lover, the debts to Lheureux mount. M....