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The Law

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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.

Directed byChristian Faure

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 27m
Language
FR
Released
November 26, 2014
Studios
La Région Île-de-FranceFrance TélévisionsK'Ien Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Emmanuelle Devos

Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski

Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch

Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Laure Killing

Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura

Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry

Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

Aurélia Petit

Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Anne Girouard

Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

Michaël Cohen

Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac

Creative team
Directed by
Christian Faure
Christian Faure
Written by
Mazarine Pingeot
Mazarine Pingeot
Fanny Burdino
Fanny Burdino
Produced by
David Kodsi

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