Panique (1946 film)

Panique
French theatrical release poster
Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Screenplay by	Julien Duvivier Charles Spaak
Produced by	Pierre O'Connell
Starring	Michel Simon Viviane Romance
Cinematography	Nicolas Hayer
Edited by	Marthe Poncin
Music by	Jean Wiener Jacques Ibert
Production company	Filmsonor
Distributed by	Filmsonor
Release date	15 January 1947 (1947-01-15)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Panique is a French film directed by Julien Duvivier, made in 1946 and released in 1947, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance. The screenplay is based on the novel Les Fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon. The film was released in the United States as Panic.

In 1989 Patrice Leconte remade the film as Monsieur Hire, with the title role played by Michel Blanc.

Plot

The strange and slightly unsettling Monsieur Hire is suspected of a crime. A crowd tracks him down and he seeks escape on the roof of a building.

Cast

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Comment

"After the war [many] narratives were spent on some kind of revenge. Marcel Carné's Les portes de la nuit, Robert Bresson's Les dames du Bois de Boulogne , Georges Lacombe's Martin Roumagnac, - the harrying of a Jew to his death in Duvivier's Panique, and a number of Simenon and Steeman thriller adaptations rife with violence and revenge - all of these films attest to a need to project the immediate past on to a different set of narratives that are removed from the immediate arena of guilt (although Panique comes uncomfortably close). Dark social realism is to be found in a considerable number of films during the five-year period after the end of the war. The films of Henri-Georges Clouzot and Henri Decoin are the most remarkable in this context in their fierce, almost cynical pessimism, but the works of Yves Allégret and Julien Duvivier in that period come close on their heels."

External links

• Panique at IMDb
• Panique at AllMovie
• Panique at “Cinema-francais“ (French)