Director: Erick Zonca
Script: Virginie Wagon, Erick Zonca
Photography: Pierre Milon
Editor: Jean-Robert Thomann
Sound: Jean-Jaques Ferran, Eric Thomas
Principal Cast: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Yann Tregouet, Jean-Jérôme Esposito, Martial Bezot, Jean-Armand Dalombay, Joe Prestia, Ingrid Preynat, Véronique Baime, Olivier Gerby, Emilie Lafarge
Producer: Gilles Sandoz
Production: La Sept Arte/Agat Films & Cie.
Distribution: Agat Films & Cie
Tel: +33 1 53 36 32 32
Fax: +33 1 43 57 00 22
FIPA 1999
Selected Filmography Erick Zonca: Rives, 1992; Seule, 1997; La Vie Rêvée des Anges, 1998.
Bakery assistant S. tosses his job. Out for a little quick cash, he lands up among Marseille's seedier elements of society: pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes. His initiation into a life of crime turns into a series of humiliations and false hopes. Erick Zonca, who made his controversial cinema debut last year in Cannes with "La Vie rêvée des anges“, shot "Le Petit Voleur" for arte, the joint French-German TV channel. In just 60 small-screen minutes, his drastic realism demands more of the viewer than the medium was ever intended to. A lesson modern living, provocative, hiding nothing, showing everything - and all of it true.