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It tells the story of French convict Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was falsely imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis Dega .
Mar 31, 2023 · What Is Papillon and its True Story About? Allied Artists. The dramatization of the life of Frenchman Henri “Papillon” Charriere is a breathtaking historical account of his life as a...
Aug 24, 2018 · In 1941, a Frenchman named Henri Charriere — whose nickname was “Papillon” (butterfly) — claims he escaped from Devil’s Island, a remote prison camp in French Guiana that was said to be...
Based on the international best-selling autobiographical books "Papillon" and "Banco", PAPILLON follows the epic story of Henri "Papillon" Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
PAPILLON is based on the true story of Henri Charriere, a 1930s safe-cracker known as Papillon (Steve McQueen) and his descent into the harrowing oblivion of the French penal system in primitive French Guyana and Devil's Island.
With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
