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The protagonist of a film set in this sort of place sees a recurring vision of a dead man who blows cigarette smoke through his neck wounds. A mechanic assures the audience that what they are about to see is his true story in the opening of a 1960 Jacques Becker film set in this sort of place. Two men in this sort of place blow smoke into each others’ mouths in Un Chant d’Amour (“un shawn dah-MOOR”), the only film by Jean Genet (“zhuh-NAY”). The line “hey, you bastards, I’m still here!” ends a film set in one of these places. Le Trou is set in this sort of place, (15[1])as is a 1956 film based on the life of André (*) Devigny (“duh-veen-YEE”) during World War II. (10[1])The Arab youth Malik learns to speak Corsican in this sort of place in Jacques Audiard’s (“ohd-YAR’s”) film A Prophet. A film set in this sort of place was inspired by a mostly-fabricated account by Henri Charrière (“on-REE shar-YAIR”), who had a chest tattoo of a butterfly. For 10 (10[1])points, what sort of place is the setting of Papillon and Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped? ■END■

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