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The Law
The Law

The Law

6.4/10

1hr 27mins

Country:FR

2014

HistoryTV Movie
Spoken Languages: Français

Overview:

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.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

La Région Île-de-France, K'Ien Productions, France Télévisions

Genre

History, TV Movie

Runtime

1hr 27mins

Rating

6.4/10

Release Date

2014-11-26