Director Michael Tuchner
Genre/Type Romance, Drama, Made for TV
Flags Mild Violence, Adult Situations
Plot Lines Accusation-false (@witchcraft/heresy), Love-unrequited, Self-sacrifice
From book by Hugo, Victor
From book Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Produced by Columbia TV / Norman Rosemont Productions
With a story as big as Victor Hugo's tragedy of Quasimodo and Esmeralda - a story of unrequited love--it is easy to see why it has been remade so often. However, it is a surprise that a movie which has been made into a classic silent movie and a classic big-budget movie (though it did have to compete with Gone with the Wind when it came out) can be made into a TV movie as well and still be called entertainment. The choice of actors, mostly stage trained, played no small part in this success. Anthony Hopkins gave his all to the tragic figure of Quasimodo, Hugo's grotesque Hunchback, as did the rest of the cast, and this TV reprise of the story is quite well done. -- Tana Hobart
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins - Quasimodo
Derek Jacobi - Dom Claude Frollo
Lesley-Anne Down - Esmeralda
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