Papillon is a powerful story of resilience and courage. It follows the journey of Henri Charrière, a French convict who is wrongly accused of murder and sentenced to life in prison. After a daring escape, he embarks on a remarkable journey of
Papillon is a 2017 biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Noer and also the last film by Red Granite Pictures. It tells the story of French convict Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon ("butterfly"), who was falsely imprisoned in 1933 in the notorious Devil's Island penal colony and escaped in 1941 with the help of another convict, counterfeiter Louis Dega. The film's screenplay is based on Charrière's autobiographies Papillon and Banco, as well as the former's 1973 film adaptation, which was written by Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. and starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.