Les amants du bagne (2004)
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Antoine De Caunes, Isabelle Renauld, Laurent Malet, Didier Bezace
A journalist reporting on a penal colony realizes that he is seeing only a small part of life there.
The story
In the 1920s, Albert Londres, a star journalist for Le Petit Parisien, arrives in the French colony of Guiana to report on the Cayenne penal colony. The authorities place him in Captain Sentier’s care to show him the colony and explain how it operates. Londres soon realizes he is seeing only a small part of life there. He meets Claudia Desfeuilles, whose husband Camille is an anarchist convict sentenced for an attack on an empty prefecture. Regularly sent to solitary confinement and subjected to torment, Camille becomes the prisoner Londres demands to meet.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the 1920s, Albert Londres, a star journalist for Le Petit Parisien, arrives in the French colony of Guiana to report on the Cayenne penal colony. Upon his arrival, the local authorities take charge of him and place him in the care of Captain Sentier, who is to show him the penal colony and how it is run. Very quickly, Albert Londres realizes that he is seeing only a small part of what life in the penal colony is really like. He then meets Claudia Desfeuilles, whose husband, Camille, an anarchist convict, has been sentenced for an attack on an empty prefecture. Considered incorrigible, Camille is regularly sent to solitary confinement and subjected to all kinds of torment. Albert Londres demands to meet him...
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