ESTHER HAASE photographed the MADAME FIGARO cover spread with ELSA ZYLBERSTEIN. The actress is now appearing in ‘Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century’, a biopic about French politician, Holocaust survivor and extraordinary European, Simone Veil. Styling of the spread was taken care of by Agnès Poulle.
For quite some time, Elsa Zylberstein admired the courage, the strength, the will and the resilience of the female politician, she tells MADAME FIGARO. From 1974 to 1979, she served as the Minister of Health in France. In 1975, she successfully legislated a law decriminalizing abortion. In the feature film, Elsa plays Simone Veil from age 38 to 87, during her various tenures as Health Minister (while Chirac and Barre were in office) and as the first female President of the European Parliament.
Elsa Zylberstein was 22 when Maurice Pialat discovered her on the set of ‘Van Gogh’. He gave her the role of Cathy, a prostitute and friend of the painter. Nominated for the César Award as Best Female Hope, she started a career the pace of which never ceased – she would go on to play in 72 films over the course of 30 years.
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