The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (sometimes known as simply Hunchback) is a 1982 British-American television movie film starring Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, and Sir John Gielgud, based on the Victor Hugo novel. It was produced as part of the long-running Hallmark Hall of Fame series. In the novel, the story, which takes place in medieval Paris, is about Quasimodo, a deformed, barely verbal hunchback who is feared and hated by ... more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (sometimes known as simply Hunchback) is a 1982 British-American television movie film starring Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, and Sir John Gielgud, based on the Victor Hugo novel. It was produced as part of the long-running Hallmark Hall of Fame series. In the novel, the story, which takes place in medieval Paris, is about Quasimodo, a deformed, barely verbal hunchback who is feared and hated by the townspeople. His only friend is Dom Claude Frollo, a priest so stern and cold he ignores Quasimodo when he's being publicly tortured for kidnapping the beautiful young gypsy Esmeralda, a crime that Frollo himself instigated out of a mad lust for her. She is the only character to show the hunchback a moment of human kindness: as he is being whipped for punishment and jeered by a horrid rabble, she approaches the public stock and gives him a drink of water. Because of this, he falls fiercely in love with her, even though she is too disgusted... less