The Law backdrop
The Law poster
Trailer
The Law
6.4
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1h 27m
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2014
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Released
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.

Cast
Emmanuelle Devos poster
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
Lionel Abelanski poster
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch poster
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
Laure Killing poster
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
Flore Bonaventura poster
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof
Lannick Gautry poster
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit poster
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard poster
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz poster
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
Michaël Cohen poster
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
Olivier Pagès poster
Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet
Alain Stern poster
Alain Stern
Michel Poniatowski
Bernard Ménez poster
Bernard Ménez
Eugène Claudius-Petit
Éric Naggar poster
Éric Naggar
Michel Debré
Émilie Caen poster
Émilie Caen
Marie-France Garaud

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