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The Law
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The Law

2014-11-26 · 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.

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Directors
Christian Faure
Production companies
La Région Île-de-France, K'Ien Productions, France Télévisions
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Emmanuelle DevosEmmanuelle DevosSimone Veil
Lionel AbelanskiLionel AbelanskiAntoine Veil
Lorànt DeutschLorànt DeutschDominique Levert
Laure KillingLaure KillingFrançoise Giroud
Flore BonaventuraFlore BonaventuraDiane Riestrof
Lannick GautryLannick GautryRémy Bourdon
Aurélia PetitAurélia PetitMarceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne GirouardAnne GirouardMyriam, la documentaliste
Michel JonaszMichel JonaszGaston Defferre
Michaël CohenMichaël CohenJacques Chirac
Olivier PagèsOlivier PagèsJean Lecanuet
Alain SternAlain SternMichel Poniatowski
Bernard MénezBernard MénezEugène Claudius-Petit
Éric NaggarÉric NaggarMichel Debré
Émilie CaenÉmilie CaenMarie-France Garaud

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