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Papillon
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The greatest escape adventure ever told
7.3(2,083 votes)
2017
2h 14m
AdventureCrimeDrama
prisonerbased on novel or bookbiographybased on true storyguillotineremakesolitary confinementsouth americawrongful convictionprison break
Overview
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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