The Law

The Law

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2014•87 min•HistoryTV Movie

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Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

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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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