The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)

Directors

Alan Hume, Michael Tuchner

Cast

Lesley-Anne Down, Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet, Gerry Sundquist, Tim Pigott-Smith, John Gielgud, Robert Powell, Nigel Hawthorne, Roland Culver

The story

In 15th century Paris, France, during the reign of Louis XI, the deformed and hunchbacked bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, falls in love with the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda, who is in love with Captain Phoebus. When Quasimodo's master and adoptive father, Archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, also becomes obsessed with Esmeralda, he tries to force her under his spell. However, when she rejects him, he indicts her for "attempted murder and witchcraft" and sentences her to death by hanging in the town square of Paris.

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