The Law

The Law — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 26, 2014
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• History, TV Movie
• Director
• Christian Faure

The Law — Cast

Emmanuelle Devos Simone Veil Lionel Abelanski Antoine Veil Lorànt Deutsch Dominique Levert Laure Killing Françoise Giroud Flore Bonaventura Diane Riestrof Lannick Gautry Rémy Bourdon Aurélia Petit Marceline Loridan-Ivens Anne Girouard Myriam, la documentaliste