The Law
The Law

The Law (2014)

2014-11-26

(FR) •

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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.

Movie Cast

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Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

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Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

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Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

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Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

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Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

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Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

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Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

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Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

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Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

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Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac

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Olivier Pagès

Jean Lecanuet

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Alain Stern

Michel Poniatowski

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Bernard Ménez

Eugène Claudius-Petit

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Éric Naggar

Michel Debré

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Émilie Caen

Marie-France Garaud