Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Gina Lollobrigida
as Esmeralda
Anthony Quinn
as Quasimodo
Alain Cuny
as Claude Frollo
Jean Danet
as Phoebus de Chateaupers
Damia
as The Beggar
Marianne Oswald
as La Falourdel
Danielle Dumont
as Fleur de Lys
Valentine Tessier
as Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Robert Hirsch
as Pierre Gringoire
Philippe Clay
as Clopin Trouillefou
Maurice Sarfati
as Jehan Frollo
Jean Tissier
as Louis XI
