The Law
26/11/2014
1h 27m



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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.
Cast


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
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