Butterfly. Sharier A.

There are books simply doomed to success. The autobiographical novel by Henri Sharir "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. Cinematographers were ready to fight for the right of film adaptation. In 1973, the premiere of the film Franklin Sheffner, shot from the Book of Sharir (in the lead roles, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman), now, is now rightfully ranked for the classics of cinema. The author of this story, Henri Sharir, nicknamed Moth (Papiion) at twenty -five years old was accused of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But then the most fantastic of his adventures began. He went through incredible trials on hard labor in French Guiana, more than once in the balance of death. The instinct of survival and an indomitable desire for freedom helped him in the end to be in the wild.