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Papillon
2017 · Film · 134 min
Directed by Michael Noer
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.
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remarkably, there is a large and prolonged historical project that fits this description very well ! It was the exiles of France, under Catholic approval, sent to the swampy exile of the Atlantic Coast of South America.. (near modern Guyana I think) This happened just after the Napoleonic Wars (?) and lasted a very long time, with many many thousands sent away. The move Papillon is based on the story of a man that survived it, as I recall.
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"Papillon is a 2017 drama film directed by Michael Noer that tells the story of French convict Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was falsely imprisoned in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek). Additionally, Papillon is a 1973 epic historical drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on Henri Charrière’s 1969 autobiography"