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The Law
2014, Nov 26
1h 27m
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 by
Christian Faure
Written by
Samuel Doux, Mazarine Pingeot, Fanny Burdino
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
Bernard Ménez
Eugène Claudius-Petit
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
Éric Naggar
Michel Debré
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet
Émilie Caen
Marie-France Garaud
Alain Stern
Michel Poniatowski
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