Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me

Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me

Directed by Yves Rénier

Produced by TF1

201891 min7.7 / 10

A harrowing true-crime drama about domestic violence, desperation, and a woman's act of survival that becomes a public reckoning.

On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.

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