The Red Sweater

The Red Sweater
  • 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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