The Red Sweater

5.4 (15 votes)

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.

Release Date: 1979-10-07

Runtime: 120 minutes

Production Companies: Gaumont

Revenue: $0

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