Release Date

13 Sep, 2021

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

La guillotine, une invention bien française

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Jean-Charles Deniau

Jean-Charles Deniau

Norbert Balit