The Red Sweater

5.5

14 votes

  • 1979-10-07
  • 120
  • fr
    • Drama 
    • Crime 

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.