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.

Credits

Michel DrachDirector

Serge AvédikianChristian Ranucci

Michelle MarquaisLouise Mathon, la mère de Ranucci

Claire DelucaMademoiselle le juge d'instruction

Roland BertinLe commissaire Robiana