The Red Sweater (1979)

Release Date: 1979-10-07
Runtime: 2h 0min
Production Company: Gaumont
Production Country: France
Director: Michel Drach

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.