Investigation 05.2001 (2001)

The title of the program is "Pocket Pull".

The host is in the courtyard of a house, giving an introductory speech, talking about pickpockets.

Pedestrians are on the street.

Title: "Pocket Pull".

Chronicle B/W: Smoke from a chimney over water, carts and a horseman, a police department case file, photographs of famous pickpockets, a view of the Metropol Hotel building in Moscow, cars driving past the Metropol Hotel building in Moscow, a traffic controller waving his hands, cars on a Moscow street, a view of buildings on Gorky Street in Moscow, photographs of French palaces, a photograph of a titled English person, a photo of the pickpocket Polonsky, rich country houses, people talking while sitting on a bench, cars and a double-decker trolleybus on the street, a view of the avenue and from the trolleybus window, pedestrians on the street, a crowd of people on the embankment, women in headscarves and men in caps on the street, people on the pier waving their hands at a departing ship, men in boots walking down the street, photographs of places of clothing where pickpockets steal money, a photograph of people on the footboard of a tram, photographs of criminals and fingerprints, people At the fair they are looking at goods, a woman with a basket, a seller with a tray of cigarettes, a detachment of Red Army soldiers with guns are walking down the street, a Red Army soldier with a rifle in a sheepskin coat and papakha, women in headscarves on the street, a man with a bandaged head.

Prisoners are marching in formation across the territory of the penal colony.

Convicts in a cell at a table and on beds.

Vladimir Lidvintsev, a pickpocket, talks about crooks, thieves and thieves' laws.

Convicts in a cell at a table.

Photos of people stealing.

A MUR officer talks about pickpocket thieves and their "work" methods.

A stand with samples of sharpening blades used by pickpockets to commit thefts.

Bags cut by pickpockets.

A MUR officer talks about shaker thieves and their "work" methods.

Vladimir Lidvintsev and an operative are walking down the corridor.

Convicts in a cell sitting and lying on beds.

Hands of a man.

Vladimir Lidvintsev, a pickpocket, talks about the methods of stealing.

A trolleybus stops at a bus stop, passengers get off.

View of the wholesale market from a high point.

A pickpocket's hand pulls a wallet out of a bag.

A crowd of people at the market.

A wallet sticks out of the back pocket of jeans.

A presenter near the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate building talks about a special police unit, the Detective Group Department, created to combat pickpocketing.

A bus pulls up to a bus stop.

Passengers inside the bus.

A pickpocket's hand pulls a wallet out of a bag.

Hands take money out of a wallet and throw away an empty wallet.

A MUR officer talks about pickpockets and methods of arresting them during a crime.

Passengers get off the trolleybus at a bus stop.

A policeman with a man at the back doors of the trolleybus.

A thief pulls out a wallet sticking out of the back pocket of a passenger's jeans, the thief throws the empty wallet on the floor of a trolleybus.

Cars on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow.

People walking up the stairs of an underpass.

People on a bus and at a bus stop.

The bus doors are closing.

A view of the road from a police patrol car.

People walking along the sidewalk to a bus at a bus stop.

Handcuffs in the hands of an operative.

The arrest of a pickpocket who got off a bus, the police officers fasten the handcuffs.

A MUR officer talks about the arrest of a pickpocket during a crime.

A trolleybus pulls up to a stop, passengers get off and on board.

A man stands at the stop.

The trolleybus drives away from the stop.

People with bags in the trolleybus, women's bags.

A view of the avenue and the exit from the underpass.

The trolleybus drives away from the stop.

A MUR officer talks about the pathological desire of pickpockets to commit crimes.

Vladimir Lidvintsev, a pickpocket, talks about the pathological desire of pickpockets to commit crimes.

Panorama of a wholesale market, cars, pavilions, a crowd of people.

A woman carries a bag.

A crowd of people at the market.

Men's and women's feet in shoes.

A woman's bag on a strap.

A crowd of shoppers at a clothing market.

A woman holds a bag with her hand.

A MUR officer says that citizens should keep two wallets.

A man holds a bag in his hands.

A woman with a bag over her shoulder.

A crowd of people at the entrance to the metro.

A woman sells flowers at the market.

A man puts a wallet in the back pocket of his jeans.

A thief pulls out a wallet sticking out of the back pocket of a man's jeans.

A crowd of shoppers at a clothing market.

A woman holds a wallet in her hand.

Aleksey Koryabin, Deputy Moscow-Kursk Transport Prosecutor, talks about the terms of punishment for pickpocketing.

A man in a bus with a purse in his hand.

The thief pulls out a wallet from his purse.

The presenter stands on the street and says the final words.

He talks about modern thieves - pickpockets.