The Law
The Law

The Law

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2014
1h 27m
6.4(17 votes)
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TV Movie

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.

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La Région Île-de-France
France Télévisions

Cast & Crew

15 members
Acting

Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Emmanuelle Devos
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Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Lionel Abelanski
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Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Lorànt Deutsch
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Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Laure Killing
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Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Flore Bonaventura
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Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

Lannick Gautry
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Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Aurélia Petit
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Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

Anne Girouard
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Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

Michel Jonasz
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Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac

Michaël Cohen
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Olivier Pagès

Jean Lecanuet

Olivier Pagès
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Alain Stern

Michel Poniatowski

Alain Stern
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Bernard Ménez

Eugène Claudius-Petit

Bernard Ménez
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Éric Naggar

Michel Debré

Éric Naggar
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Émilie Caen

Marie-France Garaud

Émilie Caen

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