The biopic on Simone Veil in preview in Toulouse
The team of “Simone, the journey of the century”, biographical film on Simone Veil, will be in Toulouse on Tuesday September 13, 2022 for two previews. Here are the timetables.
This is a personality who marked the history of France modern. Simone Veil, survivor of the Auschwitz camps then politician with marked commitments, has the right to a new cinematographic tribute.
“Simone, the trip of the century”, is a biopic directed by Olivier Dahan (La Môme, Les Rivières Pourpres 2…) and – after several successive reports since 2020 – will be released on October 12, 2022. But in Toulouse, the film will be screened in preview in two cinemas, in the presence of the director and Rebecca Marder, one of the two interpreters of Simone Veil. The other being Elsa Zylberstein, based on moments in her life.
At Pathé Wilson, meet at 8 p.m. At the CGR in Blagnac, the session will start at 7:45 p.m., and there will be a discussion after the screening with the members of the association They move.
Simone Veil, an exceptional destiny marked by commitment
The biographical film retraces the life of Simone Veil, deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16 during the Holocaust. After the war, she becomes magistrate, senior civil servant, then Minister of Health under the chairmanship of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
She became particularly famous for the “Veil law”, which decriminalizes the use of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG). But the film screened this Tuesday in preview in Toulouse also retraces the vision ofconvinced europeanist by Simone Veil. She will even end up being elected first President of the European Parliamentbetween 1979 and 1982.
Simone Veil will later be part of the Constitutional Council, then of the French Academy. Died in 2017, Emmanuel Macron will do it enter the Pantheonwith her husband the following year.