The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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  • Genre: Drama Horror
  • Running time: 115 min
  • Premiere: 19th of December 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...

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Cast

Roger Blin
as Mathias Hungadi
Anthony Quinn
as Quasimodo
Danielle Dumont
as Fleur de Lys
Alain Cuny
as Claude Frollo
Jean Danet
as Phoebus de Chateaupers
Albert Rémy
as Jupiter
Paul Bonifas
as Master Lecornu
Boris Vian
as The Cardinal
Jacques Dufilho
as Guillaume Rousseau
Jean Tissier
as Louis XI
Madeleine Barbulée
as Madame Outarde
Robert Hirsch
as Pierre Gringoire
Philippe Clay
as Clopin Trouillefou
Albert Michel
as Night Watchman
Malka Ribowska
as Une femme à la fête des fous (uncredited)
Piéral
as The Dwarf
Maurice Sarfati
as Jehan Frollo
Nadine Tallier
as Une fille à la 'Cour des Miracles' (uncredited)
Damia
as The Beggar
Jacques Hilling
as Maitre Charmolue
Marianne Oswald
as La Falourdel
Hubert de Lapparent
as Guillaume de Harancourt
Valentine Tessier
as Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Roland Bailly
as The Hangman
Camille Guérini
as The President
Robert Lombard
as Jacques Coppenole

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