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The Red Sweater (1979)

The Red Sweater (1979)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1979, October 7
Directors: Michel Drach
Countries: France
Production: Gaumont
Cast: Georges Beller, Jean Benguigui, Serge Avédikian, Patrick Floersheim, Roland Bertin, Pierre Maguelon, Michelle Marquais, Roger Ibáñez, Claire Deluca

Overview:

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.