The Devil's Island: Journey Into Jungle Alcatraz
2001 · 58 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 43 VOTES · DIR. Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
Overview
Imagine the prison of Alcatraz, only 10 times worse, built on tropical, hellish and deadly islands, lost to the rest of the world. Three tiny castaway islands rise away from the coast of French Guyana, in South America: The Devil's Islands. Now buried under an impenetrable jungle, lay the lost remains of what had been for a hundred years the most storied convict prison in history. There, while most of the prisoners faded into oblivion, a few became legends. Some because they were innocent, as in the scandalous Dreyfus Affair, some because they somehow escaped the islands of nightmare, as did the ""butterfly"", Henry Charrière, immortalized by Steve McQueen in Papillon. Now 50 years after the prison doors slammed shut for the last time, we explore what's left of the Devil's Islands' unbelievably dark and oppressive realm.
Dialogue Timeline — 573 lines
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00:00:30 Three rocks...
00:02:20 where only the memories of doomed convicts survived.
00:05:19 we'll meet with his grandson Denis Seznec in Paris.
00:06:59 and yet managed to come back alive.
00:09:01 And Saint-Joseph, also known as "the Island of Silence,"
00:10:37 Jean Galfione has gathered historical data
00:13:29 It is the largest rock in this small volcanic archipelago
00:15:59 L'Ilet-La-Mere is not the only Guyanese Island to shelter wild life.
00:17:57 Where's the shark?
00:21:23 which enables you to follow their sexual maturity
00:23:37 We walk on tiptoe
00:25:54 Helicopter is the only way to reach this island
00:27:34 "And I guess they would come each time I called them
00:30:04 the coconut palms have literally invaded the surface of the rock
00:32:36 Staying in the asylum was indeed far better
00:34:31 to teaching and healing these children
00:36:29 we would travel 45 kilometers
00:37:55 But the five convicts left on the island explained to us how things would go
00:39:41 were the first to find their way to the islands
00:42:40 The recalcitrant and rebellious convicts
00:45:16 a small group of cells in the prison is mentioned.
00:48:59 Manioc ants, an new army of convicts.
00:53:07 Young prisoner Paul Roussenc wrote one last letter to the prison authorities.
00:55:16 The vestiges of the colony inspire fascination and shame.