The Law

The Law

2014 · 87 min · ★ 6.4 · 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.

Directed by Christian Faure · Written by Mazarine Pingeot

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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

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