The Hunchback (1997)

Country of Origin: USA / Hungary
Date(s) of Broadcast: 16 March 1997
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 98 min
Format: colour     35mm
Sound: Dolby Surround

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Adelson-Baumgarten Productions / Alliance Communications Corporation / Stillking / Transatlantic Media Associates / TriStar Television
Executive in Charge of Production (Alliance): Peter Bray
Executive Vice-President, Alliance Television: Laurie Pozmantier
Executive Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Gary Adelson, Robert Lantos
Producer: Stéphane Reichel
Co-Producers: John Fasano, Peter Medak
Production Supervisor (Prague): Matthew Stillman
Production Supervisor (Rouen): Yanis Combe Ferrier
Production Manager: József Cirkó
Unit Manager: Tamas Guba
Production Coordinator: Zsuzsa Varadi

SCRIPT
Script: John Fasano
Novel: Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

DIRECTION
Director: Peter Medak
1st Assistant Director: Michelangelo Csaba Bolla
2nd Assistant Directors: Rita Nagy, Csilla Szigeti

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Elemér Ragályi
B Camera Operator: Keith Hlady
Steadicam Operator: Robert Zalay
Focus Puller: András Váradi
B Camera Focus Puller: Martin Szecsanov
Gaffer: Miklós Hajdú
Best Boy: Gyorgy Simon
Dolly Grip: Imre Sisa
Stills: Egon Endrenyi, Erik Heinila
Post Production Video Facility: D.A.V.E.
Production Labs: Magyar Film Laboratorium KFT
Post Production Lab: colour by deluxe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Jay Cassidy
1st Assistant Editor: Marguerite Davis
Post-Production Supervisor: Gregor Hutchison
Post-Production Coordinators: Mary Ann Grainger, David Huband

MUSIC
Music: Ed Shearmur

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Stuart French
Re-Recording Mixers: Dave Appleby, Tim O'Connell, Todd Beckett
Supervising Sound Editor: Jane Tattersall
Dialogue Editor: Janice Ierulli
Assistant Dialogue Editor: Julie Saragosa
ADR Editor: John Laing
Assistant ADR Editor: Stephen Kostick
Sound Effects Editor: David McCallum
Assistant Sound Effects Editor: Robert Warchol
Foley Artist: John Sievert
Post Production Audio Facility: sound by deluxe

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Julia Vitray
Make Up: Anna Tesner, Noemi Czako, Eva Vytlelová
Key Hair: Bogyo Kajtar
Hair: Monika Hufnagel, Libuse Barlova
Costume Designer: John Bloomfield
Costume Co-Designer: Maria Hruby
Wardrobe Supervisor: Gyorgy Homonnay
Wardrobe Master: Nelli Szolnoki

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Quasimodo Make Up Effects: Carter White FX

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Ferenc Ormos
Special Effects Mechanics: György Solymosi
Pyrotechnician: Gyula Krasnyanszky

VISUAL EFFECTS
Digital Special Effects: Gajdecki Visual Effects
Visual Effects Director: Jon Campfens
Miniature Director of Photography: Tom Turnbull
Motion Control Operator: Kennedy Shah
Miniature Supervisors: Richard Gajdecki, David Axford
Digital Artists: Gudrun Heinze, Joel Skeete, Elizabeth Holmes, Bob Gundu, Dug Claxton, Todd Morgan

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Trevor Williams
Art Director: József Romvári
Set Dresser: Andras Maros
Prop Masters: Peter Ganther, Attila Feherhegyi
Construction Coordinator: Eva Martin
Construction Manager: Miklos Schmeloz

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Marie La Haye
Accountant: Sándor Baló
Production Auditor: Barbara Pecs
Production Assistant: Joanna Barrington
Assistant to Craig Baumgarten: Stephanie Meyer
Transportation Coordinator: Istvan Pintye
Horse Master: Laszlo 'Sancho' Mecseki
Unit Publicists: Brabdee Brooks, Julia Jones
Alliance Business and Legal: Carol Chestnut
Project Manager: Ramona Ng

LOCATIONS
Locations: Budapest, Hungary; Prague, Czech Republic; Rouen, Normandy, France
Location Manager: Peter Seres

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Béla Unger
Stunts: Lászlo Imre, Lászlo Szili, Peter Katona, Bella 'Bill' Kasi, Sándor Bertalan, Miklos Párdányi, Domonkos Párdányi, Levente Lezsák, János Oláh, Twadar Mike, Zoltán Bodor

CASTING
Casting Executive: John Buchan
Casting: Noel Davis, Iris Grossman
Hungarian Casting: Rosalie Joseph, Laszlo Papp
Extras Casting: Gabbi Papp

CAST
Mandy Patinkin (Quasimodo)
Richard Harris (Dom Frollo)
Salma Hayek (Esmeralda)
Edward Atterton (Gringoire)
Benedick Blythe (Phoebus)
Nigel Terry (King Louis)
Jim Dale (Clopin)
Trevor Baxter (chief lawyer)
Vernon Dobtcheff (Father Michel)
Nickolas Grace (Gauchere)
Matthew Sim (crippled man)
Cassie Stuart (Colette)
Gabi Fon (Queen Anne)
Michael Mehlman (beggar)
Olga Antal (woman in crowd)
Zoltán Bán (printer)
Scott Bellefeville (prison guard)
Gábor Csíkos (man in crowd 2)
Sean Fuller (prison guard)
Zoltán Gera (overweight noble)
Kálmán Hollai (tough 1)
István Hunyadkürthi (man in crowd 3)
Zsolt Körtvélyessy (soldier 2)
Levente Tamási (cut purse)
Veronika Megyeri (woman in crowd)
Zoltán Pálfi (soldier)
Erika Sajgál (young noble)
Bella Tanai (noble woman)
Richard Toth (prison guard)
Pál Turgonyi (printer)
Peter Gabor Vineze (man in crowd)
Zsolt Zagoni (gallow's guard)

PLOT SUMMARY

The horribly deformed hunchback Quasimodo lives a lonely existence in the bell tower of Notre Dame's cathedral in Paris. One day he meets the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda and falls hopelessly in love with her, though her affections are for a handsome young soldier. But an angry a mob believe that Esmerelda is a witch and threaten to burn her at the stake – and it's down to the feared and misunderstood Quasimodo to rescue her.

USA
Television Distributors: Columbia TriStar Domestic Television; Sony Pictures Television (2002-); TNT

1997
March
16: USA – television broadcast

June
1: Argentina – television broadcast

September
Day Unknown: Portugal - video release

1998
December
16: Hungary - video release

2001
January
22: Iceland - video release

September
13: Russia - DVD release

O Corcunda de Notre Dame - Portugese title
El geperut de Notre Dame - Catalan Spanish title
Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame - German title
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Notre Damen kellonsoittaja - Finnish title

AWARDS

1997
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special (Trevor Williams, József Romvári, Andras Maros) - nominated
Outstanding Costume Design for a Miniseries or a Special (John Bloomfield) - nominated
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special (Kajtar 'Bogyo' Janosne, Monika Hufnagel, Libuse Barlova) - nominated
Outstanding Make Up for a Miniseries or a Special (Julia Vitray, David White, Sacha Carter, Julie Wright, Katalin Jakots, Anna Tesner, Noemi Czako, Eva Vytlelová) - nominated

1998
ALMA Awards, USA
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Made-for-Television Movie or Mini-Series in a Crossover Role (Salma Hayek) - nominated

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing: Television Movie of the Week: Effects and Foley – nominated
Best Sound Editing: Television Movies of the Week: Dialogue and ADR - nominated

Writers Guild of America, USA
Adapted Long Form (John Fasano) - nominated

SEE ALSO
Big Man on Campus (1989)
The Darling of Paris (1917)
Esmeralda (1905)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Nanbanji no semushi-otoko (1957)
Notre Dame de Paris (1956)
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)

MAGAZINES

Emmy vol.19 no.2 (April 1997) pp.16-17 (USA)
illustrated article

Screen International no.1073 (30 August 1996) p.21 (UK)
credits, production notes

Screen International MIFED Production Guide 27 October 1996 p.3 (UK)
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OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

bell ringers, book into film, cathedrals, hunchback, spiral staircases