
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.
1956 fr 115 minutes
Rating: 6.7
Plot
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...
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Cast

Gina Lollobrigida
Esmeralda

Anthony Quinn
Quasimodo

Alain Cuny
Claude Frollo

Jean Danet
Phoebus de Chateaupers

Damia
The Beggar

Marianne Oswald
La Falourdel

Danielle Dumont
Fleur de Lys

Valentine Tessier
Aloyse de Gondelaurier

Robert Hirsch
Pierre Gringoire

Philippe Clay
Clopin Trouillefou

Maurice Sarfati
Jehan Frollo

Jean Tissier
Louis XI

Jacques Hilling
Maitre Charmolue

Boris Vian
The Cardinal

Madeleine Barbulée
Madame Outarde

Jacques Dufilho
Guillaume Rousseau

Roger Blin
Mathias Hungadi

Piéral
The Dwarf

Roland Bailly
The Hangman

Robert Lombard
Jacques Coppenole

Hubert de Lapparent
Guillaume de Harancourt

Paul Bonifas
Master Lecornu

Albert Rémy
Jupiter

Georges Douking
A Thief

Albert Michel
Night Watchman

Camille Guérini
The President

Malka Ribowska
Une femme à la fête des fous (uncredited)

Nadine Tallier
Une fille à la 'Cour des Miracles' (uncredited)