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Pickpocket
Pickpocket (Motion picture)
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- Summary
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Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
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- Creator
- Janus Films ; MK2 ; Lux, Compagnie Cinématographique de France présente ; de Robert Bresson ; produit par Agnes Delahaie
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- French
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition
- [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
- ©2014
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (76 min. each) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded pamphlet
- video file Blu-ray region A
- video file DVD video region 1
- ISBNs
- 9781604658576, 1604658576
- OCLC
- ocn883842297
- Credits
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- Martin La Salle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal, Pierre Leymarie, Kassagi, Pierre Etaix, César Gattegno
- Cinematography, Léonce-Henri Burel; film editor, Raymond Lamy; music from the opera Atys, Jean-Baptiste Lully; conductor, Marc Lanjean
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
- Special features: new 2K digital restoration; audio commentary featuring film scholar James Quandt; introduction by writer-director Paul Schrader; The models of "Pickpocket", a 2003 documentary by Babette Mangolte that features interviews with actors from the film; interview with director Robert Bresson, from a 1960 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama; Q & A on Pickpocket from 2000, featuring actor Marika Green and filmmakers Paul Vecchiali and Jean-Pierre Améris; footage of sleight-of-hand artist and Pickpocket consultant Kassagi, from a 1962 episode of the French television show La piste aux étoiles; trailer; plus a new essay by novelist and culture critic Gary Indiana.
- DVD: region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- Blu-ray: region A; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- French language soundtrack; optional English subtitles.