The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) ( Notre-Dame de Paris ) ( Il gobbo di Notre Dame (The Hunch back of Notre Dame) )

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Notre-Dame de Paris
Alternate Title: Il gobbo di Notre Dame (The Hunch back of Notre Dame)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1956 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Jean Delannoy

Written By:
Victor Hugo
Jean Aurenche

Actors:
Gina Lollobrigida ..... Esmeralda
Anthony Quinn ..... Quasimodo
Jean Danet ..... Phoebus de Chateaupers
Alain Cuny ..... Claude Frollo
Robert Hirsch ..... Pierre Gringoire
Danielle Dumont ..... Fleur de Lys
Philippe Clay ..... Clopin Trouillefou
Maurice Sarfati ..... Jehan Frollo
Jean Tissier ..... Louis XI
Valentine Tessier ..... Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Jacques Hilling ..... Maitre Charmolue
Jacques Dufilho ..... Guillaume Rousseau
Roger Blin ..... Mathias Hungadi
Marianne Oswald ..... La Falourdel
Roland Bailly ..... The Hangman

Synopsis:

This opulent French production is the second talkie version of Victor Hugo's famous novel. Buried under mounds of latex, Anthony Quinn does his best as the deformed bellringer Quasimodo, though he comes off more as a punchdrunk ex-pug than a literal interpretation of Hugo's tragic protagonist. Somewhat more effective within the film's framework is Gina Lollobrigida as gypsy dancing girl Esmerelda, whose friendship with Quasimodo motivates the story. As in previous adaptations of the Hugo novel, the villain Frolio Alain Cluny, originally a priest, is given a less-controversial station in life: in this case, he is an alchemist rather than a man of the cloth. Otherwise, Notre Dame de Paris is one of the more faithful renditions of the original novel, even unto retaining Hugo's unhappy ending.

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...

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

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2019.