
The Law
History · TV Movie
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil


Lionel Abelanski
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil


Lorànt Deutsch
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert


Laure Killing
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud


Flore Bonaventura
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof


Lannick Gautry
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon


Aurélia Petit
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens


Anne Girouard
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste


Michel Jonasz
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre


Michaël Cohen
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
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