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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.Read moreLess
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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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.
Cast & crew
Emmanuelle DevosSimone Veil
Lionel AbelanskiAntoine Veil
Lorànt DeutschDominique Levert
Laure KillingFrançoise Giroud
Flore BonaventuraDiane Riestrof
Lannick GautryRémy Bourdon
Aurélia PetitMarceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne GirouardMyriam, la documentaliste
Michel JonaszGaston Defferre
Michaël CohenJacques Chirac
Olivier PagèsJean Lecanuet
Alain SternMichel PoniatowskiExplore the crew
- Director
- Christian Faure
- Writer
- Fanny Burdino
- Writer
- Samuel Doux
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Pierre Hervé
- Writer
- Mazarine Pingeot
- Editor
- Aurique Delannoy
- Producer
- David Kodsi