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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The Law Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Éric Naggar
He was 56, now 67 years old
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as Michel Debré |
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Aurélia Petit
She was 43, now 53 years old
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as Marceline Loridan-Ivens |
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Anne Girouard
She was 38, now 48 years old
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as Myriam, la documentaliste |
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Lorànt Deutsch
He was 39, now 49 years old
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as Dominique Levert |
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Lionel Abelanski
He was 50, now 60 years old
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as Antoine Veil |
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Emmanuelle Devos
She was 50, now 60 years old
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as Simone Veil |
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Lannick Gautry
He was 38, now 48 years old
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as Rémy Bourdon |
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Émilie Caen
She was 61, now 71 years old
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as Marie-France Garaud |
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Olivier Pagès
He was 61, now 71 years old
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as Jean Lecanuet |
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Michel Jonasz
He was 67, now 77 years old
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as Gaston Defferre |
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Laure Killing
She was 55, 60 years old when she died
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as Françoise Giroud |
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Flore Bonaventura
She was 26, now 36 years old
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as Diane Riestrof |
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Michael Cohen
He was 48, now 58 years old
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as Jacques Chirac |
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Bernard Ménez
He was 70, now 80 years old
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as Eugène Claudius-Petit |
The Law Crew
