The Red Sweater (1979)

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 Oct. 7, 1979 120 min None+

Genres: Crime, Drama, History

Keywords: imdb.death-penalty, imdb.based-on-novel, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, aspectratio.1-66-1

Production Companies: Gaumont

Country: France
Languages: French