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The Law
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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.
Cast
![Emmanuelle Devos](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//bX1l2sTxoXVMRBky7rfD3lVEHud.jpg)
Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil
![Lionel Abelanski](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//z1cw7HrXU6IKpwhkZwN8iXK8qEa.jpg)
Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil
![Lorànt Deutsch](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//7d8JzqxdyJwJql0hdLyhE3BQ4JW.jpg)
Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Levert
![Laure Killing](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ybkX3AHGHh9RpAHbwg7IZWQHVPw.jpg)
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
![Flore Bonaventura](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//3KD48qf5YWAwGq327rpcba48yPX.jpg)
Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof
![Lannick Gautry](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//h94QUkKrwUncYhJ1eMz23kBAJuc.jpg)
Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon
![Aurélia Petit](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//s42zuQHecWuexXyO4GwbenumMxF.jpg)
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
![Anne Girouard](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//2Mt0NnQTQfxUiXTFEIjod4Gyndm.jpg)
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
![Michel Jonasz](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6XFDvIXflF8dE7kdYTLRGEDri64.jpg)
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
![Michaël Cohen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//o1u4MM8Zn1erP77By8kgv10jLeO.jpg)
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
![Olivier Pagès](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//xVsO4kZlPFgoyAM7tQd5Oww4xZ7.jpg)
Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet
![Alain Stern](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//6hMRVOc1GJ5yGz0k0KlJ8pa2BEJ.jpg)
Alain Stern
Michel Poniatowski
![Bernard Ménez](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//nxaDqyHuUFRT4CNiNK6qkuKsyIS.jpg)
Bernard Ménez
Eugène Claudius-Petit
![Éric Naggar](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//pSuOCp4brYsNH1Pxrf7AfK4Fo9g.jpg)
Éric Naggar
Michel Debré
![Émilie Caen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//inBbVbSWtYd0I3VjQR9wsrrCGmA.jpg)