
The Law
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November 26, 2014
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History, TV Movie
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.
Featured Crew
Christian Faure
Director
Fanny Burdino
Writer
Quentin Prévost
Production Design
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Cast

Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert

Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof