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The Red Sweater

The Red Sweater

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 7, 1979

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

55%

Original Title

Le Pull-over rouge

Production Companies

Gaumont

Director

Michel Drach

Description

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.