I sailed from the Cape Verde Islands to devil's island in 1975. I spent a week exploring the deserted island except for few french foreign legionaires and stayed in board My boat te quest a 180 footer. Coconut were everywhere and we made good use of them and I spent 3 night's of diablo in the Rock shack that papillon had LIVED in. I read the book papillon while on the island. NOW it's a tourist licat, crowded and overrun and you can't overnight in papillons rock house, alone as he had been. I feel very lucky to have had this once in a lifetime experience and after 48 years it's still occasionally on my mind. I was 18 now 66
Agreed. I caught the film by chance on a retro movie channel in 2020 and have become obsessed! Not enough people talk about this little sadistic side pocket of human history.
An absolutely great documentary... I too had read the book Papillon and Banco in 1985 and have forever wanted and will go to the islands after the covid restrictions to experience such odyssey of a once in a lifetime... The nearest I got to French Guiana was during my military service in British Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre in 1978... Once again thank you for this documentary... It won't be long before I somehow get on Devil's Island regardless of the island being off limits to tourists that will undoubtedly see myself in the Bagne... Any one else interested!
I feel alot people resonates with his sotry because all of us are dealing with a mental persion and each day we try to escape and until one day it will be ture; we won't give up.
Thanks a lot for a great documentary. I am from Vzla, it was such a surprise to me the story of El gran café! Miss my country and I appreciate the beautiful words to my country and the end of the video. Very touching, hoping my country gets freedom soon.
Its sad he did not get to see the completion of the film although he turned up on the film set to over see it . The sudden prickly wet heat , the painful memories at his old age who knows... it might have been to much of a shock to his system hence Heart attack
Powerful and very moving. Forces one to reflect on ones own life and then think about the hellish pain and suffering of these poor tortured men, no different from ourselves. Papillon who somehow never relinquished hope after everything else that makes a man, is taken away from them, managed to find the love of God and ultimately freedom. A bereft life rewarded no doubt by eternal peace. The dichotomy of abject horror and then the fullness of beauty. RIP.
Brendan thanks so much. This is a great comment and totally in sync with how I tried to potray this and why I am personally so proud of having been able to make this. I'm glad to know it and Papillon and prisoners moved you.
You very seldom see artisticly done documentaries anymore. The kind that make you think. I had a hard time watching the section on the french penal system...but in a good way! . Man's inhumanity to man. The healing comes at the end... Those gigantic falls at the end did just that....symbolically washed all the horror away as if on cue from God! Very well done! Thankyou for sharing! God Bless!
Hi Bob, thanks very much for your great comment. I really appreciate it when people take the time to thoughtfully watch the entire thing, there is a lot here and you are one of those who "got it" fully. I am glad you liked it.
the book is very dear to me and my family also it should be studied in schools if u ask me sometimes life demands you to go against the grain and act against authority when that authority has become corrupted, forever free now our papillon rip,much love from uk x
The oigional fim just as the book are both very dear to me and i got them both . The book is very old and jaded and i bought it 35 years ago when i lived in Berlin for a while so its in German and the film i recorded in english and still have it on a dusty VHS tape from the mid nineties . Both are in my collection . Incredible how one hangs on to certain things. I could be accused of being a Neanderthal for keeping my old video machine!
You will be happy to hear and I am first to announce a new three part film coming up this summer on three Portuguese islands off coast of Portugal and Africa. And thank you!
I am soooo glad I got to visit and stay on the devil's islands in 1975, only 3 French legionaires and no development and artifacts lying about, it was the same way as when papillon had been there and I stayed in his rock house. No charge, freedom to stay as long as I wanted
@@lamanchamediatube I am not sure exactly what type of films etc...you do but iI am the founder of a very small nonprofit called Medic Outpost. We train and and equip remote first responders around the world. All volunteer and we work in Africa and Mexico. So interesting things going on. Yes, I plug I suppose. If you ever are curious. www.medicoutpost.org. Please don't judge the quality of the website. It's all on me. Be safe. Larry Hill
When I visited in 1975, women we had to guard the women. French Guiana Suriname Paramaribo was no place for a woman. Men cleared out the dangers and built the town so now women are safe
Shameful France shame on you has a nation say your sorry to all those poor souls son fathers mothers sisters and brothers shame on you always sending people here was a great crime against humanity ...god bless... them all
There was no "mothers and sisters" imprisoned. Only male persons, meaning sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, lovers - OMG ! Imagine, one was the mother, wife, sister, etc. of a poor man like that ?! Many of the men were innocent on top of this ! Shame on France for doing this way passed the mid of the 20th century !! Barbaric beyond belief !
I VE SEEN THE REMAKE . ITS NOT A PATCH ON THE ORIGINAL . YOU DID NOT GET THE FEELING HE WAS BEING CHASED . THEY BOUGHT UP IRRELEVANT STUFF . stuff that needed to be mentioned was nt . not impressed .
I enjoyed this film and loved seeing the places mentioned in the book. Shame you didn’t discuss the fact that Devil’s Island does not look like the place Papillon describes. I don’t have a problem with this great creativity but let’s not avoid the issue. Also the hysterical rubbish about the ‘suicidal Marxist cult’ locking up ‘entrepreneurs. An especially poor take as you’d just filmed inside the thriving cafe enterprise founded by Papillon.
Papillon or Dry Guillotine - Papillon remake movie (2017) with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek filmed in Montenegro, and I was part of it (the whole time of filming) and as The Executioner on the Guillotine...
You should have gone in 1975 to experience the REAL devil's island like I did. Now it's like going to Disney land and all those brightly dressed and talking tourist ruin it because when papillon was there FEW people, guards and quiet. So sorry your can't experience the real thing like I did
I lost count of how many times she went """Eh""" .... when telling what life was like .. it give me the feeling/impression that she isn't fully knowledgeable of what it was really like ..basically filling in the blanks ..
It was a memory I haven't forgotten. 1975 , alone in devil's island, staying in papillons rock house. SEE below. WITH flint school aboard the Vega and teb quest
I sailed from the Cape Verde Islands to devil's island in 1975. I spent a week exploring the deserted island except for few french foreign legionaires and stayed in board My boat te quest a 180 footer. Coconut were everywhere and we made good use of them and I spent 3 night's of diablo in the Rock shack that papillon had LIVED in. I read the book papillon while on the island. NOW it's a tourist licat, crowded and overrun and you can't overnight in papillons rock house, alone as he had been. I feel very lucky to have had this once in a lifetime experience and after 48 years it's still occasionally on my mind. I was 18 now 66
I have been to the island when I was like 9 with my patents in the 70s. - Now were are watching this together.
Thanks for this Great video!! 👍
This was incredible. The story of Papillon captured my heart many moon ago. This really was something special. I thank you 🙏🏾 XO
Papillon has touched, me so emotionally, I can't forget his book, his words, his spirit all through my college to retirement. Ha
Absolutely. Me too. Thanks
I feel the same . Its very rare that one is so moved by a book or a film.
Agreed. I caught the film by chance on a retro movie channel in 2020 and have become obsessed! Not enough people talk about this little sadistic side pocket of human history.
An absolutely great documentary... I too had read the book Papillon and Banco in 1985 and have forever wanted and will go to the islands after the covid restrictions to experience such odyssey of a once in a lifetime... The nearest I got to French Guiana was during my military service in British Guyana during the Jonestown Massacre in 1978... Once again thank you for this documentary... It won't be long before I somehow get on Devil's Island regardless of the island being off limits to tourists that will undoubtedly see myself in the Bagne... Any one else interested!
I ll go .
I feel alot people resonates with his sotry because all of us are dealing with a mental persion and each day we try to escape and until one day it will be ture; we won't give up.
Thanks a lot for a great documentary. I am from Vzla, it was such a surprise to me the story of El gran café! Miss my country and I appreciate the beautiful words to my country and the end of the video. Very touching, hoping my country gets freedom soon.
Thanks so much! I hope so too!
His passion and focus to be a free man kept him alive and succeeded in his escape to freedom.
Its sad he did not get to see the completion of the film although he turned up on the film set to over see it . The sudden prickly wet heat , the painful memories at his old age who knows... it might have been to much of a shock to his system hence Heart attack
Powerful and very moving. Forces one to reflect on ones own life and then think about the hellish pain and suffering of these poor tortured men, no different from ourselves. Papillon who somehow never relinquished hope after everything else that makes a man, is taken away from them, managed to find the love of God and ultimately freedom. A bereft life rewarded no doubt by eternal peace. The dichotomy of abject horror and then the fullness of beauty. RIP.
Brendan thanks so much. This is a great comment and totally in sync with how I tried to potray this and why I am personally so proud of having been able to make this. I'm glad to know it and Papillon and prisoners moved you.
👍 Excellent video! Papillon is one of my favorite books and it is fascinating to actually see the places he mentioned in the book.
Thanks. It was amazing to be there after reading his book
God is the greatest Architect 🤲🏽🙏🏽❤️🌹
You very seldom see artisticly done documentaries anymore. The kind that make you think. I had a hard time watching the section on the french penal system...but in a good way! . Man's inhumanity to man. The healing comes at the end... Those gigantic falls at the end did just that....symbolically washed all the horror away as if on cue from God! Very well done! Thankyou for sharing! God Bless!
Hi Bob, thanks very much for your great comment. I really appreciate it when people take the time to thoughtfully watch the entire thing, there is a lot here and you are one of those who "got it" fully. I am glad you liked it.
I would love to go and experience this for myself
Two thumbs up
Very nice, and informative video 👍
Awesome work!! GREAT doc!!
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story !! Really enjoyed this upload some great detail many thanks.
Fantastic video. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
the book is very dear to me and my family also it should be studied in schools if u ask me sometimes life demands you to go against the grain and act against authority when that authority has become corrupted, forever free now our papillon rip,much love from uk x
My favorite book . I read it three times. Once every ten years i read it.
The oigional fim just as the book are both very dear to me and i got them both . The book is very old and jaded and i bought it 35 years ago when i lived in Berlin for a while so its in German and the film i recorded in english and still have it on a dusty VHS tape from the mid nineties . Both are in my collection . Incredible how one hangs on to certain things. I could be accused of being a Neanderthal for keeping my old video machine!
Great movie watched 10 or more times would love to visit there
Wow thank u! Great compliment to know u watched 10x! If u can, go!
@@lamanchamediatube I have over 25 copies of the book: Papillon.
This was cool video R.I.P PAPILLON.
Lovely French lady tour guide. I wonder where she is now?
Thank you.
I've just found you folks LMM - i must say i am enamored. brilliant topics. great video. great job. please keep the content coming!
You will be happy to hear and I am first to announce a new three part film coming up this summer on three Portuguese islands off coast of Portugal and Africa. And thank you!
Excellent!!!
Wow this made me think so much much about life...I sat silent after.
Amazing thanks
I was 17 endless years behind barbed wires.I know what is it.It was very hard.
I have a butterfly tattooed on my chest too. 🦋 Papillon 🦋 My hero.
Im not tattooed but if i had one it would be that and on my hairy chest like Henri aka Papillon had.
good work!
I am soooo glad I got to visit and stay on the devil's islands in 1975, only 3 French legionaires and no development and artifacts lying about, it was the same way as when papillon had been there and I stayed in his rock house. No charge, freedom to stay as long as I wanted
I have read book
Exalant but I was waiting for lali and zorayama,s histri
Make videos please
wow i heard of this place and seen the 2017 movie but this documentary explain it better
Thanks so much
PLEASE watch the origional film NOT the remake .
It's hard 2 I.agine this went on till 1947 . 11 years b4 j was born.
Until 1953 it seems !
What song is played at the end. I see names in the credits but still can’t find it. Thanks. Great videos.
Yes it is a beautyful piece of music and has such a French feel to it.
Smiling by Britain
Nice vedio
Very informative
Thanks!
Very good documentary.
And let's not ignore how beautiful that French girl is💕
YES indeed my thoughts also. She is cool.
What an incredible film! I know you have the music listed in the credits, but what song is playing for the last 3 minutes? PLEASE tell me.
great work!
Heroes were made here.
What an incredible film! I know you have the music listed in the credits, but what song is playing for the last 4 minutes?
hi i am from malaysia .. this story is very mentally testing a person if anyone is in his place .. anything can i know where can i buy a papillon book
Thank you. I enjoyed and learned from your work. Larry Medic Outpost
Thanks!
@@lamanchamediatube I am not sure exactly what type of films etc...you do but iI am the founder of a very small nonprofit called Medic Outpost. We train and and equip remote first responders around the world. All volunteer and we work in Africa and Mexico. So interesting things going on. Yes, I plug I suppose. If you ever are curious. www.medicoutpost.org. Please don't judge the quality of the website. It's all on me. Be safe. Larry Hill
Obviously, my proofreading skills are also in short supply. Apologies.
I always wonder were Papillon end his days.mmm at the grand café,venezuela.nice story.
The Gran cafe was not in any tour book or internet.. I got very lucky to meet a local who had contacts to find it! Tx!
No he died a throat cancer in 1977 . I think . Check the matte . Dippy bollocks .
christopher james In 1973 in Madrid Spain.
When I visited in 1975, women we had to guard the women. French Guiana Suriname Paramaribo was no place for a woman. Men cleared out the dangers and built the town so now women are safe
Shameful France shame on you has a nation say your sorry to all those poor souls son fathers mothers sisters and brothers shame on you always sending people here was a great crime against humanity ...god bless... them all
There was no "mothers and sisters" imprisoned. Only male persons, meaning sons, fathers, brothers, husbands, lovers - OMG ! Imagine, one was the mother, wife, sister, etc.
of a poor man like that ?! Many of the men were innocent on top of this ! Shame on France for doing this way passed the mid of the 20th century !! Barbaric beyond belief !
Another great series. Highly unlikely the Gran Cafe is thriving as before given the current state of despair in Venezuela. Truly sad indeed.
Your surely right. This was filmed in 2013 before things got as bad as they are now. Thanks for your interest!
I hear a lot of conflicting information about his story and quite a bit was not true it seems?
🧐🧐..This here!!!🧐🧐
classic
Evil 😈 human of state still they do the same cruelties.
Sad story 😢
Why is it always only men that are sent to such places of hell ?! Why ?!
@@Senior_Viajero I was talking about the men sent to penal colonies, not about war.
He wasn't there .
Not sure I believe the story of the sharks hearing the bell .
But Marxism and socialism are not that bad. Capitalism is worse.
Se tivesse legenda em Português...
Beautiful video, but the story is a farce, that is, Henri Charrière is a plagiarist!
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story !!
I VE SEEN THE REMAKE . ITS NOT A PATCH ON THE ORIGINAL . YOU DID NOT GET THE FEELING HE WAS BEING CHASED . THEY BOUGHT UP IRRELEVANT STUFF . stuff that needed to be mentioned was nt . not impressed .
Chavez wanted to give Angel falls an indigenous name NOT name them after himself.
I enjoyed this film and loved seeing the places mentioned in the book. Shame you didn’t discuss the fact that Devil’s Island does not look like the place Papillon describes. I don’t have a problem with this great creativity but let’s not avoid the issue. Also the hysterical rubbish about the ‘suicidal Marxist cult’ locking up ‘entrepreneurs. An especially poor take as you’d just filmed inside the thriving cafe enterprise founded by Papillon.
Thanks. Also take a look at part I and ii if this doc for fullness of understanding the end
Papillon or Dry Guillotine - Papillon remake movie (2017) with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek filmed in Montenegro, and I was part of it (the whole time of filming) and as The Executioner on the Guillotine...
You should have gone in 1975 to experience the REAL devil's island like I did. Now it's like going to Disney land and all those brightly dressed and talking tourist ruin it because when papillon was there FEW people, guards and quiet. So sorry your can't experience the real thing like I did
Cant believe the French were so cruel....
anytime there is cruel torture genocide and death or colonising the word FRENCH is always involved
I lost count of how many times she went """Eh""" .... when telling what life was like .. it give me the feeling/impression that she isn't fully knowledgeable of what it was really like ..basically filling in the blanks ..
She quite informative especially given that english is not her first language.
She is a great guide with good English. You, on the the other hand, are a waste of space.
@@behindtheranges 1,2,3 AWWWWWWWWWWWWW You are clearly upset by my opinion ..
@@colintraveller 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a memory I haven't forgotten. 1975 , alone in devil's island, staying in papillons rock house. SEE below. WITH flint school aboard the Vega and teb quest
What an incredible film! I know you have the music listed in the credits, but what song is playing for the last 4 minutes?
Found it! Always Smiling by Dexter Britain You have just have to be patient with the song but it is the one: ruclips.net/video/P3hMWhAiV_A/видео.html
I like the film as much as I like the book. Very rare that for its usually one or the other.