Pickpocket

By: Robert Bresson

Cankarjev dom Cinema Pickpocket

Arguably the best-masked reworking of any Dostoyevsky’s work, a film that sums up the state of mind of many of the writer's characters, especially Raskolnikov. An incomparable story of crime and redemption from the French auteur Robert Bresson follows Michel, a young pickpocket who spends his days working the streets, subways, and stations of Paris. A cornerstone in the career of this filmmaker, Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity. Bresson’s much more faithful screen adaptations of A Gentle Creature (1969) and White Nights (1971) reflect his great admiration for Dostoyevsky’s work.