Esmeralda (1905)

Directed by

Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, Alice Guy-Blaché

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

10 min

Rating

3.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short silent film from 1905. It is the earliest movie version of Victor Hugo's novel about a kindhearted woman named Esmeralda and a bell ringer named Quasimodo in Paris.

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What happens

Esmeralda (French: Esméralda) is a 1905 French short silent film based on the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame written by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché. There are two characters in the film, Esmeralda (Denise Becker) and Quasimodo (Henry Vorins). The film is the oldest film adaptation of the novel. The film was long considered to be lost, but an Italian film collector gave the last surviving copy to Gaumont. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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