The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
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...
Director:
Jean Delannoy
Writers:
Jean Aurenche, Jacques Prévert.
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Gina Lollobrigida as Esmeralda |
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Anthony Quinn as Quasimodo |
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Alain Cuny as Claude Frollo |
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Jean Danet as Phoebus de Chateaupers |
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Damia as The Beggar |
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Marianne Oswald as La Falourdel |
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Danielle Dumont as Fleur de Lys |
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Valentine Tessier as Aloyse de Gondelaurier |
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Robert Hirsch as Pierre Gringoire |
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Philippe Clay as Clopin Trouillefou |
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Maurice Sarfati as Jehan Frollo |
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Jean Tissier as Louis XI |
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Jacques Hilling as Maitre Charmolue |
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Boris Vian as The Cardinal |
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Madeleine Barbulée as Madame Outarde |
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Jacques Dufilho as Guillaume Rousseau |
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Roger Blin as Mathias Hungadi |
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Piéral as The Dwarf |
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Roland Bailly as The Hangman |
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Robert Lombard as Jacques Coppenole |
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Hubert de Lapparent as Guillaume de Harancourt |
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Paul Bonifas as Master Lecornu |
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Albert Rémy as Jupiter |
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Georges Douking as A Thief |
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Albert Michel as Night Watchman |
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Camille Guérini as The President |
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Malka Ribowska as Une femme à la fête des fous (uncredited) |
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Nadine Tallier as Une fille à la 'Cour des Miracles' (uncredited) |
| Camera | Michel Kelber | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Victor Hugo | Novel |
| Directing | Jean Delannoy | Director |
| Writing | Jean Aurenche | Screenplay |
| Production | Raymond Hakim | Producer |
| Sound | Georges Auric | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Henri Taverna | Editor |
| Writing | Jacques Prévert | Screenplay |
