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20141h 27mFrench

The Law

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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.

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DirectorChristian Faure

Keywords

historical figurehistoricalreproductive rights

Cast

Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil

Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil

Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert

Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud

Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura as Diane Riestrof

Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry as Rémy Bourdon

Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

Aurélia Petit as Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Anne Girouard as Myriam, la documentaliste

Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

Michel Jonasz as Gaston Defferre

Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

Michaël Cohen as Jacques Chirac

Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac