What is Devil's Island / Papillon about?

Devil’s Island, 2006, JVA, 58 min. Dir. Jean Christophe Jeauffre. Narrated by Christopher Lee. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle lays the lost remains of what had been, for over a hundred years, the most legendary convict prison in history. PAPILLON, 1973, Warner Bros., 150 min. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Papillon (Steve McQueen) is a safecracker, a man of action. Dega (Dustin Hoffman) is a brilliant counterfeiter, an intellectual. Both are trying to escape from the French Guyana Penitentiary of Devil’s Island. This unlikely friendship of opposites offers us a memorable reunion of two sacred monsters of Hollywood and one of the greatest prison escape movies ever made!

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What is Devil's Island / Papillon about?: Devil’s Island, 2006, JVA, 58 min. Dir. Jean Christophe Jeauffre. Narrated by Christopher Lee. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle lays the lost remains of what had been, for over a hundred years, the most legendary convict prison in history.

PAPILLON, 1973, Warner Bros., 150 min. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Papillon (Steve McQueen) is a safecracker, a man of action. Dega (Dustin Hoffman) is a brilliant counterfeiter, an intellectual. Both are trying to escape from the French Guyana Penitentiary of Devil’s Island. This unlikely friendship of opposites offers us a memorable reunion of two sacred monsters of Hollywood and one of the greatest prison escape movies ever made!