The Red Sweater(1979)

movie - first aired/released 1979-10-07 - 120 min - audience 5.4

Drama, Crime

Directed by 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.