The Law

The Law

87 mins | History | Nov. 26, 2014

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.

The Law

87 mins | History | Nov. 26, 2014

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.
Producers France Télévisions, Région Ile-de-France, K'Ien Productions
Original title La Loi
Directors Christian Faure
Writers Mazarine Pingeot, Fanny Burdino, Samuel Doux

Cast

Emmanuelle Devos

as Simone Veil

Lionel Abelanski

as Antoine Veil

Lorànt Deutsch

as Dominique Levert

Laure Killing

as Françoise Giroud

Flore Bonaventura

as Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry

as Rémy Bourdon

Aurélia Petit

as Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Anne Girouard

as Myriam, la documentaliste

Michel Jonasz

as Gaston Defferre

Michaël Cohen

as Jacques Chirac

Olivier Pagès

as Jean Lecanuet

Alain Stern

as Michel Poniatowski

Bernard Ménez

as Eugène Claudius-Petit

Éric Naggar

as Michel Debré

Émilie Caen

as Marie-France Garaud