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Berlin International Film Festival 1960 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Pickpocket

Director:
Robert Bresson
75 Minutes
 

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Director Robert Bresson chose Uruguayan nonactor Martin LaSalle for his leading man in Pickpocket. LaSalle's inexperience works against the film for some viewers, though Bresson himself was satisfied because his star proved himself a quick study in the art of lifting wallets (a genuine pickpocket was engaged as "technical adviser"). Essentially, the story is a character study of a cocky young criminal who becomes so entranced by the act of picking pockets that he literally can't stop himself.

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Runtime:
75 min.

Country:
FRANCE

Language:
French

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • Audio commentary by film scholar James Quandt
  • New video introduction by writer - director Paul Schrader
  • The Models of "Pickpocket," a 2003 documentary byfilmmaker Babette Mangolte, featuring actors fromthe film
  • A 1960 interview with Bresson, from the Frenchtelevision program Cinpanorama
  • Q&A on Pickpocket, with actress Marika Green andfilmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean - Pierre Amerisfielding questions at a 2000 screening of the film
  • Footage of sleight - of - hand artist and Pickpocketconsultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux etoiles
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana
  • New and improved English subtitle translation

 

 

 

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Directed by
Robert Bresson

Produced by
Agnes Delahaie

Writing credits
Robert Bresson

Cast

Dolly Scal
Jean Pelegri
Pierre Leymarie
Martin LaSalle
Kassagi
Marika Green
Cesar Gattegno
Pierre Etaix

 

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