The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)

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Movie
German title The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Original title Notre Dame de Paris
Country of production Italy , France
original language French
Publishing year 1956
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jean Delannoy
script Jean Aurenche ,
Jacques Prévert
production Raymond Hakim ,
Robert Hakim
music Georges Auric ,
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
camera Michel Kelber
cut Henri Taverna
occupation

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a film by Jean Delannoy from 1956. It is based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo .

action

Paris in the 15th century. Quasimodo, misshapen Hunchback of Cathedral Notre Dame , sees the festival of fools Esmeralda, a grown up in gypsy beauty, and is fascinated by her. Claude Frollo, the cathedral's archdeacon , also takes a liking to her. He orders Quasimodo to bring Esmeralda to him. She thinks she is being kidnapped. The royal guard misunderstood the situation and captured Quasimodo. Claude can escape. Esmeralda instantly falls in love with her temporary protector Phoebus, head of the royal guard, who in turn is betrothed to Fleur de Lys.

The next day Quasimodo is publicly flogged and put in chains. He is made thirsty, but Esmeralda gives him a jug of water to drink; Claude frees him from his chains. Phoebus and Claude are now vying for Esmeralda's favor. When Phoebus seems to make the running, he is stabbed by Claude. But Esmeralda is taken for the perpetrator, since her knife was the instrument of the murder; she is sentenced to death. Believed to be dead, but in truth only seriously injured, Phoebus doesn't want to hear anything more about the incident.

Quasimodo frees Esmeralda and hides her in the bell tower, as she also enjoys asylum in the church . Esmeralda's friends, an army of beggars and petty criminals, want to storm the cathedral. a. to free them. Quasimodo misunderstood the situation and defended himself with stones and pouring hot liquids. When Esmeralda opens the gate for her helpers, she is accidentally shot with an arrow by soldiers who have marched in the background to put down the riot. Claude is thrown from the church tower by Quasimodo for causing the tragedy. Although she is dead, Esmeralda is hung on the gallows for the sake of order. Quasimodo steals the corpse, hides it in an underground vault, never leaves her side and later dies there.

background

The novel had already been filmed by Wallace Worsley ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame ; with Lon Chaney senior as the bell ringer) and in 1939 by William Dieterle ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame ; with Charles Laughton as the bell ringer). In characterizing the characters, Jean Delannoy sticks to the novel and differs in this from the previous film adaptations. Delannoy had to assert himself against the producers of the film. They wanted to get rid of the religious aspect because they feared protests from religious groups.

The film was first released on DVD in Germany on November 21, 2013.

Reviews

  • “The famous story [...] was filmed for the third time with the brilliant Anthony Quinn; colorful folklore with glossy effects [...]. ”(Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ” (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 309
  • “The colored Cinemascope film adaptation by Delannoy is more spectacular, but less precise than that of Dieterle (1939). Yet Anthony Quinn is almost as convincing as a bell ringer as Charles Laughton was. Unfortunately, the implementation of Victor Hugo's novel in this French film version turned out to be more “American”, the pyrotechnic effects are a bit too intrusive. ”- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • Victor Hugo : The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Roman (original title: Notre-Dame de Paris ). With an afterward from Klaus-Peter Walter. Complete edition. Based on the transfer by Friedrich Bremer on the original, checked and reworked by Michaela Messner. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-423-13376-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 13 917 V).
  2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used