Papillon
The greatest escape adventure ever told
2017 | 134m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Michael Noer |
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| Writer: | Henri Charrière, Aaron Guzikowski |
| Staring: |
| Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 07, 2017 |
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| Director: | Michael Noer |
| Writer: | Henri Charrière, Aaron Guzikowski |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, prisoner, guillotine, remake, solitary confinement, south america, wrongful conviction, prison break, island prison, devil's island, shocking, reflective, french guiana, complex, critical, sentimental, whimsical, ambivalent, baffled, bewildered, brisk, complicated, doubtful, melodramatic |
| Production Companies | Red Granite Pictures, Czech Anglo Pictures, FishCorb Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $10,060,903
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 13, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Charlie Hunnam | Henri 'Papillon' Charrière |
| Rami Malek | Louis Dega |
| Christopher Fairbank | Jean Castili |
| Eve Hewson | Nennete |
| Michael Socha | Julot |
| Brian Vernel | Guittou |
| Nicholas Asbury | Commandant |
| Louisa Pili | Clara |
| Antonio de la Cruz | Tribouillard |
| Andre Flynn | Galgani |
| Yorick van Wageningen | Warden Barrot |
| Nikola Kent | Deputy Warden Brioulet |
| Mark Phelan | Sierra |
| Michael Adams | Bartiloni |
| Roland Møller | Celier |
| Slavko Sobin | El Caiman |
| Luka Peroš | Santini |
| Goran Navojec | Smuggler |
| Dragan Mićanović | Doctor Guibert |
| Joel Basman | Maturette |
| Petar Ćirica | Abda |
| Nenad Heraković | Mouton |
| Brian Nickles | Manhunter #1 |
| Cali Nelle | Manhunter #2 |
| Eydel Francisco Balbuena | Manhunter #3 |
| Reshad Strik | Prison Guard #4 |
| Tommy Flanagan | Masked Breton |
| Lorena Andrea | Lali |
| Poppy Mahendra | Zoraima |
| Juan Leonardo Solari | Zori |
| Veronica Quilligan | Mother Superior |
| Mirjam Novak | Young Irish Nun |
| Demetri Goritsas | Jean-Pierre Castelnau |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Lee Haugen | Editor |
| Kate Ringsell | Casting |
| Tom Frohling | Art Direction |
| Jennifer M. Gentile | Set Decoration |
| Jelena Blažić | Unit Production Manager |
| Milica Djordjevic | Third Assistant Director |
| James Andrew Haven | Second Assistant Director |
| Sanja Bulat | Leadman |
| Jelena Danko | Set Designer |
| Dušan Demić | Set Designer |
| Igor Kandic | Set Designer |
| Dániel Miklós | Set Designer |
| Bojana Nikolić | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Dušan Pešić | Leadman |
| Steven M. Saylor | Set Designer |
| Hristina Stojanovic | Set Designer |
| Luka Antonić | Costume Coordinator |
| Eddy Garcia | Assistant Editor |
| Tara Blume | Foley Artist |
| Rick Owens | Foley Artist |
| Zoran Prodanović | Boom Operator |
| Becky Sullivan | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Geert van Gaalen | ADR Recordist |
| Kirstin Chalmers | Makeup Designer, Hair Designer |
| Laura Lilley | Key Hair Stylist, Key Makeup Artist |
| Tatjana Lipanović | Makeup Artist |
| Martina Šubić-Dodočić | Makeup Supervisor, Hair Supervisor |
| Bill R. Dean | Sound Effects Editor |
| Andrew DeCristofaro | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Henri Charrière | Book |
| David Buckley | Original Music Composer |
| Tom Meyer | Production Design |
| Novica Jankov | Sound Mixer |
| Nenad Pečur | Art Direction |
| Michael Noer | Director |
| Aaron Guzikowski | Screenplay |
| James Grogan | Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator |
| Bojana Nikitović | Costume Design |
| Hagen Bogdanski | Director of Photography |
| Marisol Roncali | Casting |
| Natasha Gerasimova | Art Direction |
| John Portnoy | Post Production Supervisor |
| Sean Guest | First Assistant Director |
| Randy Crabb | Construction Manager |
| Jeremy Holroyd | Construction Manager |
| Andrej Kostic | Storyboard Artist |
| Thomas A. Morris Jr. | Construction Coordinator |
| Marko Oršolić | Scenic Artist |
| Ana Saric | Set Designer |
| Ivana Stefanović | Property Master |
| Irena Rajnvajn | Key Costumer |
| Julian McDougald | Digital Intermediate Producer |
| Tamara Pešić | Location Manager |
| Dragan Kaplarević | Construction Manager |
| Marija Nikolić | Art Department Coordinator |
| Lauren Rosenbloom | Set Designer |
| Milos Stankovic | Construction Manager |
| Uroš Stojanović | Graphic Designer |
| Adina Bucur | Costume Supervisor |
| Tony Dustin | Digital Intermediate Colorist |
| Scott Morris | First Assistant Editor |
| Renee Minasian | Post Production Coordinator |
| Linda Cohen | Music Supervisor |
| Ed McCormack | Orchestrator |
| Joy Ellison | Dialect Coach |
| Joanna Vellacott | Production Coordinator |
| Nikola Boskovic | Drone Operator |
| Marko Gligorijevic | Underwater Camera |
| Scott Johnson | Music Editor |
| Marina Lešić | Script Supervisor |
| Christina Pallot | Production Coordinator |
| Violeta Živančević | Tailor |
| Philip Klein | Orchestrator |
| Kohli Calhoun | Dialect Coach |
| Ceris Price | Unit Publicist |
| Mikša Anđelić | Camera Operator |
| Trifunovic Dragan | Aerial Director of Photography |
| Martin Hume | Camera Operator |
| Miloš Kodemo | Steadicam Operator |
| Robert Patzelt | Steadicam Operator |
| Nemanja Živić | Electrician |
| Anna Behlmer | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Milica Dimitrijevic | Second Assistant Camera |
| José Haro | Still Photographer |
| Dragan Jović | Key Grip |
| Lazar Milanović | Dolly Grip |
| Branislav Stojanović | First Assistant "B" Camera |
| Rob Davidsson | ADR Mixer |
| Barrie Gower | Prosthetics |
| Rado Ivančević | Rigging Gaffer |
| Milan Mihajlović | Second Assistant Camera |
| Zoran Pecenkovic | Electrician |
| Laura Harris Atkinson | Dialogue Editor |
| Patrick Christensen | ADR Mixer |
| Gregor Mazurczuk | Sound Recordist |
| Michael Payne | Sound Effects Editor |
| Mark Paterson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Geordy Sincavage | Foley Artist |
| Ryan Wassil | Foley Mixer |
| Dalton Trumbo | Original Film Writer |
| Mary Vernieu | Casting |
| Aidan Brindle | Stunt Double |
| Neda Krkeljić | Production Assistant |
| John Axelrad | Editor |
| Ana Milošević | Assistant Art Director |
| Chris Lyons | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Kevan Van Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Roger Corbi | Producer |
| Yan Fisher-Romanovsky | Executive Producer |
| Joshua Maurer | Executive Producer |
| David Koplan | Producer |
| Joey McFarland | Producer |
| Patrick Wengler | Associate Producer |
| Terence Chang | Executive Producer |
| Sean Guest | Associate Producer |
| Ram Bergman | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 39 | 63 | 26 |
| 2024 | 5 | 38 | 53 | 32 |
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| 2024 | 9 | 942 | 942 |
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| 2024 | 8 | 169 | 303 |
Ruuz
5.0
Competent is the word of the day here. The acting's not great but it's **competent**. The style isn't blowing my mind but it's shot **competently**. _Papillon_ is the sort of movie that will have its lead hit near-anorexia to express the level of torture his character has suffered, but can't have ... him grow a beard past sexy manicured stubble despite being isolated in a cell with nothing for two whole years. It commits hard to half-measures. A very unusual paradox that leads to a movie that's very, **very** okay. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
Jun 23, 2021