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Notre Dame de Paris (1956)
Country of Origin: France / Italy
Year of Production: 1956
Running Times: 115 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm CinemaScope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Panitalia / Paris Film Productions
Producers: Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
Production Manager: Ludmilla Goulian
Unit Manager: Paul Laffargue
SCRIPT
Script: Jean Aurenche, Jacques Prévert, Ben Hecht (uncredited)
Novel: Victor Hugo
DIRECTION
Director: Jean Delannoy
Assistant Director: Pierre Zimmer
2nd Assistant Directors: Joseph Drimal, Alain Kaminker
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michel Kelber
Camera Operator: Wladimir Ivanov
Assistant Camera: André Delille, André Domage
Still: Raymond Voinquel
Lab: Laboratoires LTC, St. Cloud, France
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Henri Taverna
Assistant Editors: Ginou Bretoneiche, Marie-Louise Barberot
MUSIC
Music: Georges Auric
Song and Dance Music: Lavagnino (real name: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino)
Musical Director: Jacques Métehen
SOUND
Sound Engineer: Jacques Carrère
Sound System: Western Electric Sound System
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Bonnemaison (real name: Louis Bonnemaison), Klein (real name:
Georges Klein)
Wig Maker: Huguette LaLaurette
Costume Designer: Georges K. Benda
Gina Lollobrigida's Gowns: Colasanti (real name: Veniero Colasanti)
Dress Makers: Catherine, Raymonde
Wardrobe: Emmanuel Bourassin, Léon Zay
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Gérard Cogan
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: René Renoux
Set Dresser: Maurice Barnathan
Assistant Decorators: Alfred Marpaux, Jean Taillandier, Pierre Tyberghein
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Girl: Claude Vériat
Administrator: Léo Spohr
Choreographer: Léonide Massine
LOCATIONS
Studios: Paris Studios Cinéma, Billancourt, France; Studios de
Boulogne
CAST
Gina Lollobrigida (Esmeralda)
Anthony Quinn (Quasimodo)
Jean Danet (Capitaine Phoebus de Chateaupers)
Alain Cuny (Claude Frollo)
Robert Hirsch (Gringoire)
Danielle Dumont (Fleur de Lys)
Philippe Clay (Clopin Trouillefou)
Maurice Sarfati (Jehan Frollo)
Jean Tissier (King Louis XI)
Valentine Tessier (Aloyse de Gondelaurier)
Jacques Hilling (Charmolue)
Jacques Dufilho (Guillaume Rousseau)
Roger Blin (Mathias Hungadi)
Marianne Oswald (Falourdel)
Roland Bailly (Torterue)
Piéral (Le Nain)
Camille Guérini (Le Président)
Damia (La Mendiante)
Robert Lombard (Jacques Coppenole)
Albert Rémy (Jupiter)
Hubert de Lapparent (Guillaume de Harancourt)
Boris Vian (Le Cardinal)
Madeleine Barbulée (Madame Outarde)
Albert Michel (Le Veilleur de nuit)
Daniel Emilfork (Le Rouge)
Etcheverry (real name: Michel Etcheverry) (L'Archidiacre)
Dominique Davray (La Charonne)
Yvette Lucas (Rongeoreille)
Denise Carvenne (La Tapissière)
Jacques Bertrand (Bellevigne de l'Etoile)
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.
AVAILABILITY
France
Theatrical Distributor: Cocinor
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation (1957)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
USA
Rating: PG (for violence and sensuality)
TIMELINE
1956
April
16: France – production begins
August
11: France – production ends
December
19: France, Italy – theatrical release
1957
November
3: USA – theatrical release
1960
March
25: Finland – theatrical release
2003
June
21: Russia – shown at the Moscow Film Festival
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dzwonnik z Notre Dame - Polish title
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame - German title
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - UK / US title
I misteri di Parigi - Italian title
Nostra senyora de París - Catalan Spanish title
Notre Damen kellonsoittaja - Finnish title
Nuestra señora de París - Spanish title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Big Man on Campus (1989)
The Darling of Paris (1917)
Esmeralda (1905)
The Hunchback (1997)
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)
Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
KEYWORDS
bell ringers, book into film, cathedrals, gypsies, hunchbacks
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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