The Red Sweater

Storyline

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.

• Released

  1979

• Runtime

  2h 0min

• Director

  Michel Drach

Genre

DramaCrime

• Status

  Released

• Language

  French

• Production

  Gaumont