“Whatever it is that French women have ... Madame Bovary had more of it!”
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Director
Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$2,076,000
Revenue
$2,016,000
Leon Dupuis
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...
