Moscow thief (1993)

An orchestra of street musicians plays on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow.

Passers-by stop, watch, listen.

A queue for ice cream.

A clock on a pole shows 13:55. Street trading from cars.

A man puts his wallet with money in his back pocket.

Passers-by, a crowd of shoppers at a street market.

A panorama of a museum stand telling about trade on Sukharevskaya Square.

A panorama of a display case with thieves' tools.

Machines for making counterfeit money.

Stands with hand weapons: pistols, machine guns.

A sign of the Central Museum of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

A panorama of the building from top to bottom.

A boulevard: passers-by, a fountain, people resting on benches.

A beggar walks along the benches, asking for alms.

Numerous passers-by on the street.

Bags in people's hands.

A purse sticks out of a back pocket of trousers.

Women's bags on their shoulders among passers-by.

A trolleybus approaches a stop, passengers get on and off.

The doors of the trolleybus close and it drives away.

The interior of a trolleybus, passengers sit and stand.

Clothing is being sold in the area around the Luzhniki stadium.

Many people with bags.

Money is being passed from hand to hand.

A woman hides her wallet deep in her bag.

Clothing fair in Luzhniki.

Carpets are laid out on the ground.

A woman inside is telling (synchronously and off-camera) how she was robbed.

Criminal cases are laid out on the table.

A boy is riding a tricycle on the boulevard, women are sitting on a bench.

Criminal investigation officer Vladimir Kharitonov is telling (synchronously and off-camera) about the specifics of thieves' activities.

Children are playing football in the park.

Newspaper articles with the titles "Pickpockets", "Pickpockets".

Operational footage: the process of stealing, hands reaching into a pocket, taking out money.

Photographs of pickpockets.

Operational footage: a thief's hands taking a wallet out of a purse.

Photograph of a woman who was stealing from pockets.

View of the McDonald's fast food restaurant on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow.

A man and a woman are standing at a kiosk.

Photographs of pickpockets.

Pedestrians walking down the street.

Life-size dolls for street photography.

Life-size photographic figure of Yeltsin.

Panorama of display cases with drinks.

Crowd at street market.

Pedestrians walking.

Men drinking beer at tables under sign "Beer bar".

Empty mug and can from which beer was drunk.

Panorama of street, cars driving, church across the street.