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The Law

2014

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 & Crew

EDED
Emmanuelle Devos

as Simone Veil

LALA
Lionel Abelanski

as Antoine Veil

LDLD
Lorànt Deutsch

as Dominique Levert

LKLK
Laure Killing

as Françoise Giroud

FBFB
Flore Bonaventura

as Diane Riestrof

LGLG
Lannick Gautry

as Rémy Bourdon

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Basic Information
Status
Released
Release Date
11/26/2014
Runtime
1 hours, 27 minutes
Original Language
FR
Financial
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Genres
History
TV Movie
Production Countries
France (FR)
Spoken Languages
French (fr)
Production Companies
La Région Île-de-France
La Région Île-de-France
K
K'Ien Productions
France Télévisions
France Télévisions