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Date: | Jan 2, 2014 7:00–9:30pm |
Organized by: | Megawra - Built Environment Collective |
Venue: | Megawra - Built Environment Collective |
Address: | 2 Darb al-Shaykh Khalil, beside Sabil Umm ‘Abbas, off Saliba St., al-Khalifa., Cairo, |
Papillon is a 1973 prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière
The film starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega.
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Running time: 150 minutes