🎬 Pickpocket (1959)

Martin Luis LaSalle Supervielle (19 January 1935 – 17 October 2018) was a French-Uruguayan actor. LaSalle first appeared in the Robert Bresson film Pickpocket (1959). Previously unknown, and in line with the director's mature practice, not then an actor, he was cast in the lead role. Following his debut, he appeared i…

Marika Nicolette Green (born 21 June 1943) is a Swedish-French actress. She is mostly famous for appearing in Pickpocket (1959) and Emmanuelle (1974). Born in Södermalm, Stockholm, Stockholm County, she left Sweden for France in 1953. She played the lead female role in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket at the age of 16. She…

Jean Pélégri (June 20, 1920 – September 24, 2003) was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to as pied-noirs following the Algerian War.

Pierre Étaix was a French comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an Academy Award for best live-action short film in 1963.

Dominique Zardi (born Emile Jean Cohen-Zardi; 2 March 1930 – 13 December 2009) was a French actor from Paris. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including Fantômas with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of 79. He was the uncle of the actress and film director Agnès Jaoui.

Robert Bresson was a French film director known for works such as Pickpocket, L'Argent and Mouchette. He developed a minimalist, stripped-down style using non-professional actors and an austere, unsentimental approach that heavily influenced later art-house cinema. His films often explore guilt, grace and moral redemp…