![]() ![]() Dega helps him meet an inmate doctor, who offers to secure him a boat on the outside with the help of a man named Pascal. Papillon sees Dega again and asks him to arrange for another escape attempt. He is eventually released and sent to the infirmary in St-Laurent-du-Maroni to recover. Half-insane and reduced to eating insects to survive, Papillon refuses to give up Dega's name. ![]() When the smuggling is discovered, the warden screens Papillon's cell in darkness for six months and halves his rations, believing that it will force him to reveal his benefactor. ![]() In gratitude, Dega has extra food smuggled to Papillon. One day, Papillon defends Dega from a sadistic guard and escapes into the jungle, but is captured and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement. Enduring the horrors of life in a jungle labor camp, the two eventually become friends. Papillon offers to protect Dega if he will fund the former's escape once they reach Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega ( Dustin Hoffman), an infamous forger and embezzler who is convinced that his wife will secure his release. In 1933 France, he is "wrongly" convicted of murdering a pimp and is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana. Henri Charrière ( Steve McQueen), is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. ![]()
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