The Red Sweater

    The Red Sweater
    1979

    Synopsis

    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.

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      Cast

      • Serge AvédikianChristian Ranucci
      • Michelle MarquaisLouise Mathon, la mère de Ranucci
      • Claire DelucaMademoiselle le juge d'instruction
      • Roland BertinLe commissaire Robiana
      • Pierre MaguelonL'inspecteur Commenci
      • Roger IbáñezM. Garcia, le père d'Elisa
      • Jean BenguiguiCharlie, le journaliste
      • Georges BellerGilles Chard, journaliste
      • Patrick FloersheimVincent Pasquini, le garagiste

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