Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket is a film that is both gentle and severe, dealing with human loneliness, guilt, and an inner rift. In a free interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment", the main character, Michel, is not a murderer, but a pickpocket, but his crimes also stem from deep psychological impulses. Bresson's handwriting here is maximally minimalist. Instead of dialogue, there are hand gestures, and instead of acting, there is mechanical behavior. The film leaves the viewer in the role of an observer without direct involvement of emotions. "The Pickpocket" is one of the most severe and condensed works in Bresson's filmography, where crime becomes a philosophical problem, and movement becomes language.