STORY
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.
CAST & CREW
- Emmanuelle Devos
- Lionel Abelanski
- Lorànt Deutsch
- Laure Killing
- Flore Bonaventura
Cast
- Christian Faure
Director
INFORMATION
- La Région Île-de-France
- K'Ien Productions
- France Télévisions
Production Companies
- France
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- French