Papillon

Papillon 1973

The film Papillon, for which Franklin J. Schaffner, the master director and writer of old cult films, sat behind the camera and prepared for the vision in 1973, was screened in Turkey in February 1978. The Butterfly, whose story Dalton Trumbo wrote, received a great deal of attention in 1973 and continues to attract great attention and be remembered by cult film lovers, although not as much today. We see that the world-famous actor Steve McQueen, who passed away in 1980, took part in the movie Papillon, starring master names such as Dustin Hoffman and Victor Jory, and had a score of 8.1 with IMDB voting exceeding 79 thousand people. The film Butterfly, which perfectly reflects the drama and crime scenes in the biographical category with the cinema conditions of the time, with an impression period of 2 and a half hours, was shot with a budget of 13.5 million dollars and earned a revenue of more than 53 million dollars until the end of the box office. Henri Charriére, nicknamed Butterfly, had previously been imprisoned for a minor offense and was wrongfully tried for a murder he did not commit. Unable to prove his innocence, the man was transferred to a high security prison on Devil's Island in France, which is famous for its evils. What this prison is famous for is the inhumane treatment of prisoners. He also makes the beginning of a beautiful friendship with the prisoner named Louis, whom he met during his butterfly journey...