The Law

The Law

2014
1h 27m
6.4

6.4/10

17 votes • View on IMDb
History 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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Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
La Région Île-de-France K'Ien Productions France Télévisions
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French

Keywords

historical figure historical reproductive rights

Quick Facts

Original Title La Loi
Release Date November 26, 2014
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt4202972

Cast

Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski
Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch
Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Laure Killing
Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura
Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry
Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

Aurélia Petit
Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Anne Girouard
Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

Michel Jonasz
Michel Jonasz

Gaston Defferre

Michaël Cohen
Michaël Cohen

Jacques Chirac

Olivier Pagès
Olivier Pagès

Jean Lecanuet

Alain Stern
Alain Stern

Michel Poniatowski

Key Crew

Christian Faure
Director
Mazarine Pingeot
Writer
Fanny Burdino
Writer
Samuel Doux
Writer
David Kodsi
Producer