Papillon
La mayor aventura de escapada de una cárcel!
1973 • 151 min • Crime · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 6 · 69%
- 78 Audience · 2152 · 31%
Basada en una historia real, esta película sigue a Henri "Papillon" Charrière, un hombre condenado injustamente por asesinato, mientras soporta brutales colonias penales francesas e intenta repetidamente escapar de su injusto encarcelamiento. Su viaje es de resiliencia y una determinación inquebrantable para recuperar su libertad.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 5/10
Heads up
- Escenas de la brutal vida en prisión
- Algunas representaciones gráficas de violencia
- Temas de injusticia y desesperación
- Representa el confinamiento solitario colonial histórico y sus efectos
What it models well
- Resiliencia ante la adversidad
- Aguante y determinación
- Esperanza y la voluntad de sobrevivir
- Lealtad y amistad
Talk about it after
- El sistema judicial y las condenas injustas
- Las duras realidades de la vida en prisión
- El valor de la amistad en tiempos difíciles
- ¿Qué hace a alguien verdaderamente libre?
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Top billed cast
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner • Crew: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Dalton Trumbo
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Reviewer notes
Recommended**A classic film with a remarkable story and great actors.** This is a work that almost everyone remembers if the theme is films about the prison environment.…
RecommendedSteve McQueen is superb as unlucky safe-cracker Henri "Papillon" Charrière, an innocent man convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment in the French penal colony at French Guiana. Once there, he learns quickly to appreciate the sheer brutality of a prison where any semblance of decency and humanity has been long abandoned.…
Recommended_**The living hell of a penal colony in equatorial South America during the 30s**_ Henri Charrière’s account of his experiences from 1933-1945 involving the penal colony of Cayenne in French Guiana, South America, are chronicled, including solitary confinement, escape attempts, dwelling with Goajira Indians (in northeastern Columbia) and living on Devil's Island.…
RecommendedAlthough present for much of the filming, author Henri Charriere didn't live to see the release of PAPILLON (1973), which was based on his allegedly autobiographical novel. The veracity of what he recounts has been questioned virtually since the books' release in 1969, and the film takes further liberties, leaving one to wonder if this adventure picture is more fiction than fact.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersGrim and authentic telling of Henri "Papillon" Charrière's time at Devil's Island. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet Of The Apes/Patton), Papillon is adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo & Lorenzo Semple Jr. from notorious French felon Henri "Papillon" Charrière's own novel. It stars Steve McQueen (Papillon) & Dustin Hoffman (Louis Dega), is primarily shot in Jamaica & Spain with Fred J.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersGrim and authentic telling of Henri "Papillon" Charrière's time at Devil's Island. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (Planet Of The Apes/Patton), Papillon is adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo & Lorenzo Semple Jr. from notorious French felon Henri "Papillon" Charrière's own novel. It stars Steve McQueen (Papillon) & Dustin Hoffman (Louis Dega), is primarily shot in Jamaica & Spain with Fred J.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.8/10 (2,152)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $53,267,000
- IMDb
- tt0070511
