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The Red Sweater

The Red Sweater

Michel Drach

1979

  • Drama
  • Crime
5.4

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.

Cast & crew

  • Michel DrachDirector
  • 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

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