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The Law(2014)
Status: Released
Date: 2014-11-26
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17 Votes
Time: 1h 27m
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
K'Ien Productions
Movie: The Law
Top 10 Billed Cast
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
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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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2014-11-26
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