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Pickpocket

Haifa Classics

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Robert Bresson
  • France 1959
  • 76 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Michel, a young pickpocket, spends his days working the streets, subway cars, and train stations of Paris. As his compulsive pursuit of the thrill of stealing grows, however, so does his fear that his luck is about to run out.
Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.
Filmography: Money (1983), Mouchette (1967), Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), A Man Escaped (1956), Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945).
Restored Digital Copy


  • Director Robert Bresson
  • Production Agnès Delahaie
  • Script Robert Bresson
  • Cinematography Léonce-Henri Burel
  • Editing Raymond Lamy
  • Music from the opera Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Actors Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Pierre Leymarie
  • Source MK2, Paris

Pickpocket