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Plot. Henri Charrière is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In France, he is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp in 1933 and is sentenced to life imprisonment in French Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega, an infamous forger and embezzler.
Plot. Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is framed for murder. Though he has an alibi from his lover, Nenette, Papillon is convicted and condemned to the notorious Devil's Island penal colony in French Guiana — a hellish prison from which nobody has escaped.
Synopsis. Henri Charriere (Steve McQueen) is a safe-cracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In 1933 France, he is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp and is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana, South America.
Mar 31, 2023 · The dramatization of the life of Frenchman Henri “Papillon” Charriere is a breathtaking historical account of his life as a falsely convicted felon at a French Guiana penal colony during the...
Summaries. Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Dec 19, 1973 · 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.
Dec 16, 1973 · Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The autobiography of Henri Charriere, one of the few people to successfully escape from the notorious French penal colony of Devil's Island, served as the basis for Papillon. Steve McQueen plays the pugnacious Charriere (known as "Papillon," or "butterfly," because of a prominent tatoo), incarcerated--wrongly, he ...
