(La Loi)

Content: 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.

Countries:

France

Genres:

History,

TV Movie

Runtime:

87 minutes

Year:

2014

Directors:

Christian Faure

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Production companies:

La Région Île-de-France,

K'Ien Productions,

France Télévisions

Actors:

Simone Veil

Antoine Veil

Dominique Levert

Françoise Giroud

Diane Riestrof

Crews:

Director

Writer

Writer

Writer

Editor