Screenplay Jean Aurenche, Jacques Prévert
Director Jean Delannoy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Original Title: Notre-Dame de Paris
Tagline: The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
Release Date: 1956-12-19
Duration: 115 minutes
Synopsis
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Casting
- Gina LollobrigidaEsmeralda
- Anthony QuinnQuasimodo
- Philippe ClayClopin Trouillefou
- Alain CunyClaude Frollo
- Robert HirschPierre Gringoire
- Malka RibowskaUne femme à la fête des fous (uncredited)
- Nadine TallierUne fille à la 'Cour des Miracles' (uncredited)
- Robert LombardJacques Coppenole
- Madeleine BarbuléeMadame Outarde
- Paul BonifasMaster Lecornu
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