Pickpocket (1959)
December 16, 1959Release Date
Pickpocket (1959)
December 16, 1959Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Martin LaSalle
Michel
Marika Green
Jeanne
Jean Pélégri
L'inspecteur principal
Dolly Scal
La mère
Pierre Leymarie
Jacques
Pierre Étaix
Accomplice 2
Kassagi
1er complice
César Gattegno
Un inspecteur
Sophie Saint-Just
Dominique Zardi
Agnès Delahaie
Producer
Antoine Archimbaud
Sound Designer
Léonce-Henri Burel
Director of Photography
Robert Bresson
Screenplay / Director
Pierre Charbonnier
Production Design
Raymond Lamy
Editor
Michel Choquet
Production Manager
Henri Raichi
Assistant Camera
Jacques Ballanche
Assistant Director
Claude Clément
Assistant Director
André du Breuil
First Assistant Camera
Jacques De St. Girons
Second Assistant Camera
Michel Clément
Assistant Director
Geneviève Falaschi
Assistant Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 16, 1959
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 15m
Content RatingNR
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Pickpocket is a 1959 French film written and directed by Robert Bresson. It stars Martin LaSalle, in his feature film debut, in the title role, and features Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie, and Jean Pélégri in supporting roles. It features a pickpocket who is drawn to crime, despite the intercession of his family, his friends, and even an empathetic policeman.
The film is generally considered to be one of Bresson's greatest films. Along with A Gentle Woman and Four Nights of a Dreamer, it is one of three Bresson movies heavily influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bresson's favorite author. It combines elements of Crime and Punishment's Rodion Raskolnikov (who questions whether moral rules should apply to superior men) with a street-crime plot inspired by Samuel Fuller's film Pickup on South Street (1953).