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.
Genres: Adventure , Crime , Drama
Keywords: ambivalent , baffled , based-on-novel-or-book , based-on-true-story , bewildered , biography , brisk , complex , complicated , critical , devil-s-island , doubtful , french-guiana , guillotine , island-prison , melodramatic , prisao , prison-break , prisoner , reflective , remake , sentimental , shocking , solitary-confinement , south-america , whimsical , wrongful-conviction