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.
Emmanuelle Devos
as Simone Veil
Lionel Abelanski
as Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
as Dominique Levert
Laure Killing
as Françoise Giroud
Flore Bonaventura
as Diane Riestrof
Lannick Gautry
as Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit
as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
as Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz
as Gaston Defferre
Michaël Cohen
as Jacques Chirac
Olivier Pagès
as Jean Lecanuet
Alain Stern
as Michel Poniatowski
