Name: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Director: Jean Delannoy
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: 1956-12-19
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Alain Cuny, Jean Danet, Damia

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

★ 6.7 1956 1h 55min Drama • Horror

“The timeless tale of the seductive gypsy Esmeralda and the tortured hunchback Quasimodo.”

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...