The Law (2014)
Original title: La loi
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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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Emmanuelle DevosSimone Veil
Lionel AbelanskiAntoine Veil
Lorànt DeutschDominique Levert
Laure KillingFrançoise Giroud
Flore BonaventuraDiane Riestrof
Lannick GautryRémy Bourdon
Aurélia PetitMarceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne GirouardMyriam, la documentaliste
Michel JonaszGaston Defferre
Michaël CohenJacques Chirac
Olivier PagèsJean Lecanuet
Alain SternMichel PoniatowskiKeywords
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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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The Law has a runtime of 87 minutes.
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