Movie

The Red Sweater

★ 5.4/10 · 17 votes 1979 2h 0m Released

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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.

Cast

Serge Avédikian Christian Ranucci Michelle Marquais Louise Mathon, la mère de Claire Deluca Mademoiselle le juge d'ins Roland Bertin Le commissaire Robiana Pierre Maguelon L'inspecteur Commenci Roger Ibáñez M. Garcia, le père d'Elisa