Drama ·Crime · France · 1979 · 2h 0m

The Red Sweater

Le Pull-over rouge

Director

Cast

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

Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators

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