Butterfly

There are books simply doomed to success. The autobiographical novel by Henri Shariere "The Moth" became a bestseller immediately after its publication in 1969. In the first three years after the publication, about 10 million copies of this book were printed. Filmmakers were ready to fight for the right to film. In 1973, the premiere of the film Franklin Sheffner, based on the book Charrier (starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman), now rightfully attributed to the classics of cinema.

The author of this story, Henri Sharrier, nicknamed Moth (Papillon) at the age of twenty-five, was charged with murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But then the most fantastic of his adventures began. On penal servitude in French Guiana, he went through incredible trials, more than once finding himself in the balance of death. The survival instinct and the indomitable desire for freedom helped him to finally be free.