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.
as Simone Veil
as Antoine Veil
as Dominique Levert
as Françoise Giroud
as Diane Riestrof
as Rémy Bourdon
as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
as Myriam, la documentaliste
as Gaston Defferre
as Jacques Chirac
as Jean Lecanuet
as Michel Poniatowski
as Eugène Claudius-Petit
as Michel Debré
as Marie-France Garaud
