The Law
6.6
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 Devos
Simone Veil
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Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
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Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
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Françoise Giroud
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Diane Riestrof
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Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
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Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
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Anne Girouard
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Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
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Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
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Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet
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Michel Poniatowski
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Christian Faure Director · Samuel Doux Writer Fanny Burdino Writer
First release November 26, 2014 · Produced in France · Production K'Ien Productions, France Télévisions
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La Région Île-de-France
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K'Ien Productions
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France Télévisions
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Région Ile-de-France
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France
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Original title
La Loi
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · November 26, 2014
TV · France 2
No release date listed for United States.
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