The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Plot Summary

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

7.2 /10

1939

US

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paris, france

based on novel or book

unrequited love

racism

kindness

hunchback

notre dame cathedral

bell ringing

beggar clan

physical deformity

sanctuary

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gypsy woman

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