Film

The Law

2014 · 1h 27m · History · TV Movie

IMDb

6.6

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.

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

Bernard Ménez

Eugène Claudius-Petit

Éric Naggar

Michel Debré

Émilie Caen

Marie-France Garaud

• Christian FaureDirector
• Fanny BurdinoWriter
• Samuel DouxWriter
• Mazarine PingeotWriter
• David KodsiProducer
• Jean-Pierre HervéDirector of Photography
• Aurique DelannoyEditor

Release date

November 26, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

History, TV Movie

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