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.

DirectingChristian Faure WritingMazarine Pingeot

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Cast

Simone Veil

Emmanuelle Devos

Antoine Veil

Lionel Abelanski

Dominique Levert

Lorànt Deutsch

Françoise Giroud

Laure Killing

Diane Riestrof

Flore Bonaventura

Rémy Bourdon

Lannick Gautry

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Aurélia Petit

Myriam, la documentaliste

Anne Girouard

Gaston Defferre

Michel Jonasz

Jacques Chirac

Michaël Cohen

Jean Lecanuet

Olivier Pagès

Michel Poniatowski

Alain Stern

Eugène Claudius-Petit

Bernard Ménez

Michel Debré

Éric Naggar

Marie-France Garaud

Émilie Caen

Details:

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List of countries:
1. France
List of languages:
1. French
List of companies:
1. La Région Île-de-France
2. K'Ien Productions
3. France Télévisions
Vote Count: 17
Popularity: 0.3785
Status: Released
Original title:La Loi