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.
as Christian Ranucci
as Louise Mathon, la mère de Ranucci
as Mademoiselle le juge d'instruction
as Le commissaire Robiana
as L'inspecteur Commenci
as M. Garcia, le père d'Elisa
as Charlie, le journaliste
as Gilles Chard, journaliste
as Vincent Pasquini, le garagiste
