The Red Sweater

IMDb link: 0079761
IMDb rating: 6.9 (197 votes)
Genres: Crime, Drama, History
Director: Serge Avedikian, Michel Drach
Cast: Pierre Agil, Paul Anrieu, Gil Baladou and others

Release date: 7 Nov 1979
Release year: 1979
Runtime: 120 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: death penalty, based on novel

Plot:

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Southern France. The publicity the book and film helped abolish capital punishment in France in 1981.

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