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The Red Sweater (1979)
Directed by Michel Drach
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.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Serge Avedikian | Michelle Marquais | Claire Deluca | Roland Bertin | Pierre Maguelon | Roger Ibanez | Jean Benguigui | Georges Beller | Patrick Floersheim