The Red Sweater

Movie · 2h 0m

Starring Serge Avédikian, Michelle Marquais, Claire Deluca, Roland Bertin

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.