The Law

The Law (2014)

History TV Movie

Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.

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  • Release Date: 2014-11-26
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Director: Christian Faure

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    • Cast

    • Emmanuelle Devos

      Simone Veil

    • Lionel Abelanski

      Antoine Veil

    • Lorànt Deutsch

      Dominique Levert

    • Laure Killing

      Françoise Giroud

    • Flore Bonaventura

      Diane Riestrof

    • Lannick Gautry

      Rémy Bourdon

    • Aurélia Petit

      Marceline Loridan-Ivens

    • Anne Girouard

      Myriam, la documentaliste

    • Michel Jonasz

      Gaston Defferre

    • Michaël Cohen

      Jacques Chirac

    • Olivier Pagès

      Jean Lecanuet

    • Alain Stern

      Michel Poniatowski

    • Bernard Ménez

      Eugène Claudius-Petit

    • Éric Naggar

      Michel Debré

    • Émilie Caen

      Marie-France Garaud

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