The Red Sweater

Release Date: 1979-10-07

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.

Rating: 5.4 / 10

Cast

Serge Avédikian

as Christian Ranucci

Michelle Marquais

as Louise Mathon, la mère de Ranucci

Claire Deluca

as Mademoiselle le juge d'instruction

Roland Bertin

as Le commissaire Robiana

Pierre Maguelon

as L'inspecteur Commenci