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.
Christian Faure
Director
Fanny Burdino
Writer
Samuel Doux
Writer
Mazarine Pingeot
Writer
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
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Flore Bonaventura
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Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
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