The Law

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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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Creators

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Christian Faure

director

Mazarine Pingeot

writer

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Fanny Burdino

writer

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Samuel Doux

writer

Cast

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Emmanuelle Devos actor Lionel Abelanski actor Lorànt Deutsch actor Laure Killing actor Flore Bonaventura actor Lannick Gautry actor Aurelia Petit actor Anne Girouard actor Michel Jonasz actor Michael Cohen actor Olivier Pagès actor

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Alain Stern actor Bernard Menez actor

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Éric Naggar actor Émilie Caen actor