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The Law

By Christian Faure

2014

History

1h27

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6.6/10

Synopsis

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.

Casting

Christian Faure

Christian Faure

Director

Emmanuelle Devos

Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Eric Naggar

Eric Naggar

Michel Debré

Michaël Cohen

Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac

Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

Olivier Pages

Olivier Pages

Jean Lecanuet

Lorànt Deutsch

Lorànt Deutsch

Flore Bonaventura

Flore Bonaventura

Lannick Gautry

Lannick Gautry

Laure Killing

Laure Killing

Lionel Abelanski

Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Aurélia Petit

Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan

Anne Girouard

Anne Girouard

Myriam, documentaliste de L'Express

Stephan Wojtowicz

Stephan Wojtowicz

Rédacteur en chef de L'Express

Alain Stern

Alain Stern

Michel Poniatowski

Émilie Caen

Émilie Caen

Marie-France Garaud

Philippe Uchan

Philippe Uchan

Charles Pasqua

JE

Jean-Paul Comart

Pierre Juillet

Patrick Haudecoeur

Patrick Haudecoeur

Jean-Marie Daillet

FR

Frédéric Norbert

Robert Ballanger

Laurent Claret

Laurent Claret

Edgar Faure

List