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The Law

2014-11-26
6.441
fr 87m
HistoryTV Movie
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.

Director

Christian Faure

Writer

Fanny Burdino

Writer

Samuel Doux

Writer

Mazarine Pingeot

Editor

Aurique Delannoy

Director of Photography

Jean-Pierre Hervé

historical figure historical reproductive rights

Status

Released

Countries

  • France

Companies

  • La Région Île-de-France
  • K'Ien Productions
  • France Télévisions