Papillon
Papillon retrace le destin véridique de Henri Charrière
1973 • 151 min • Crime · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 6 · 69%
- 78 Audience · 2152 · 31%
Basé sur une histoire vraie, ce film suit Henri « Papillon » Charrière, un homme injustement condamné pour meurtre, alors qu'il endure les brutales colonies pénitentiaires françaises et tente à plusieurs reprises d'échapper à son emprisonnement injuste. Son parcours est celui de la résilience et d'une détermination inébranlable à retrouver la liberté.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 5/10
Heads up
- Scènes de vie carcérale brutale
- Quelques représentations graphiques de violence
- Thèmes d'injustice et de désespoir
- Dépeint l'isolement colonial historique et ses effets
What it models well
- La résilience face à l'adversité
- L'endurance et la détermination
- L'espoir et la volonté de survivre
- La loyauté et l'amitié
Talk about it after
- Le système judiciaire et les condamnations injustes
- Les dures réalités de la vie en prison
- La valeur de l'amitié dans les moments difficiles
- Qu'est-ce qui rend quelqu'un vraiment 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
