
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