The Law
movie
Released November 26, 2014
Overview
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.
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
Crew
Christian Faure
as
Director
Fanny Burdino
as
Writer
Samuel Doux
as
Writer
Mazarine Pingeot
as
Writer
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Aurique Delannoy
as
Editor
Jean-Pierre Hervé
as
Director of Photography
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Eric Perron
as
Costume Design
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Vincent Deleforge
as
Production Design
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Quentin Prévost
as
Production Design
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David Kodsi
as
Producer