The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956Paris, 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...
Acted in
Gina Lollobrigida
as Esmeralda
Anthony Quinn
as Quasimodo
Alain Cuny
as Claude Frollo
Jean Danet
as Phoebus de Chateaupers
Damia
as The Beggar
Marianne Oswald
as La Falourdel
Danielle Dumont
as Fleur de Lys
Valentine Tessier
as Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Robert Hirsch
as Pierre Gringoire
Philippe Clay
as Clopin Trouillefou
Maurice Sarfati
as Jehan Frollo
Jean Tissier
as Louis XI
Jacques Hilling
as Maitre Charmolue
Boris Vian
as The Cardinal
Madeleine Barbulée
as Madame Outarde
Jacques Dufilho
as Guillaume Rousseau
Roger Blin
as Mathias Hungadi
Piéral
as The Dwarf
Roland Bailly
as The Hangman
Robert Lombard
as Jacques Coppenole
Hubert de Lapparent
as Guillaume de Harancourt
Paul Bonifas
as Master Lecornu
Albert Rémy
as Jupiter
Georges Douking
as A Thief
Albert Michel
as Night Watchman
Camille Guérini
as The President
Malka Ribowska
as Une femme à la fête des fous (uncredited)
Nadine Tallier
as Une fille à la 'Cour des Miracles' (uncredited)