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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, the film is loosely based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name, but changed most of its substance to make it more family-friendly. The ...
An animated Disney adventure follows disfigured Quasimodo (Tom Hulce), the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who bides his time locked away in a tower. With only gargoyles to keep him company ...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a novel by Victor Hugo that was first published in 1831 (as Notre-Dame de Paris ). One of the first great novels of the Romantic era, it has entertained generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic story of Quasimodo, the hunchback who lives in the bell tower of medieval Paris’s most famous cathedral.
Notre Dame, the great cathedral of central Paris, gave Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel its original title. We in the English-speaking world know the book as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and tend to focus on the character of Quasimodo, the bell-ringer whose physical deformities conceal a brave and kind heart. The reason for the confusion of titles is ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a Gothic novel. With its medieval setting, inclusion of stock Gothic characters (such as the demonic and lust driven priest, Claude Frollo) ,and tragic ending, Hugo’s novel is similar to Gothic novels from the 18th century, such as The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and The Monk by Matthew Lewis.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Directed by William Dieterle. With Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara. In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Der Glöckner von Notre Dame) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical based on the 1996 Disney film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the 1831 Victor Hugo novel of the same name. It has music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and book by James Lapine.
