The Red Sweater

Le Pull-over rouge

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.

Director

Michel Drach

Status

Released

Release date

07/10/1979

Original language

French