The greatest escape adventure ever told
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
- Director
- Michael Noer
- Writers
- Aaron Guzikowski
Themesambivalentbased on novel or bookbased on true storybiographycomplex
