The Law

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Emmanuelle Devos

Simone Veil

Age : 59 | Popularity : 6%

Lionel Abelanski

Antoine Veil

Age : 59 | Popularity : 8%

Lorànt Deutsch

Dominique Levert

Age : 48 | Popularity : 3%

Laure Killing

Françoise Giroud

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Flore Bonaventura

Diane Riestrof

Age : 35 | Popularity : 9%

Lannick Gautry

Rémy Bourdon

Age : 48 | Popularity : 15%

Aurélia Petit

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Age : 53 | Popularity : 3%

Anne Girouard

Myriam, la documentaliste

Age : 48 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Christian Faure
Writing	Writer	Samuel Doux Fanny Burdino Mazarine Pingeot
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Eric Perron
Editing	Editor	Aurique Delannoy
Production	Producer	David Kodsi
Camera	Director of Photography	Jean-Pierre Hervé
Art	Production Design	Vincent Deleforge Quentin Prévost
Department	Role	Name

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