La guillotine, une invention bien française
7.0
2021
1h 0m
DocumentaryTV MovieHistory
Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as the instrument of the death sentence. This machine, developed during the Revolution to render justice more equal, was presented as progress. Over time, opinion has been divided on the subject of the death penalty, the guillotine becoming the object of man's cruelty, a remnant of an archaic way of dispensing justice and fuelling the many debates around the death penalty and its abolition.
Key Crew
Director
Jean-Charles Deniau
Producers
Norbert Balit
Writers
Jean-Charles Deniau
Keywords
death penaltydeath sentenceguillotinecrueltyfrench governmentfrench historyhistory and legacyhistorical documentaryjustice and punishment
