Papillon

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.

• prisoner
• based on novel or book
• biography
• based on true story
• guillotine
• remake
• solitary confinement
• south america
• wrongful conviction
• prison break
• island prison
• devil's island
• shocking
• reflective
• french guiana
• complex
• critical
• sentimental
• whimsical
• ambivalent
• baffled
• bewildered
• brisk
• complicated
• doubtful
• melodramatic