The Law
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, 2014Runtime
87 minGenres
HistoryDirected by
Christian FaureWritten by
Fanny Burdino, Samuel Doux, Mazarine PingeotLanguage
FrenchBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1qefiPO2XSxw65LhapWkcv06rQY.jpg)
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/bX1l2sTxoXVMRBky7rfD3lVEHud.jpg)
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/z1cw7HrXU6IKpwhkZwN8iXK8qEa.jpg)
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/7d8JzqxdyJwJql0hdLyhE3BQ4JW.jpg)
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ybkX3AHGHh9RpAHbwg7IZWQHVPw.jpg)
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3KD48qf5YWAwGq327rpcba48yPX.jpg)
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/h94QUkKrwUncYhJ1eMz23kBAJuc.jpg)
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/s42zuQHecWuexXyO4GwbenumMxF.jpg)
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2Mt0NnQTQfxUiXTFEIjod4Gyndm.jpg)
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/6XFDvIXflF8dE7kdYTLRGEDri64.jpg)
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/o1u4MM8Zn1erP77By8kgv10jLeO.jpg)
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xVsO4kZlPFgoyAM7tQd5Oww4xZ7.jpg)
Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/6hMRVOc1GJ5yGz0k0KlJ8pa2BEJ.jpg)
Alain Stern
Michel Poniatowski![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nxaDqyHuUFRT4CNiNK6qkuKsyIS.jpg)
Bernard Ménez
Eugène Claudius-Petit![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/pSuOCp4brYsNH1Pxrf7AfK4Fo9g.jpg)
Éric Naggar
Michel Debré![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/inBbVbSWtYd0I3VjQR9wsrrCGmA.jpg)
Émilie Caen
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