Payment in Kind
1980/02/26 • Released • Czech
Overview
In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition than about law. In one of these litigations a wayward nephew has cheated his elderly aunt out of her savings. In court, the nephew insists the money was a gift, but his aunt explains she only gave him the money as a loan. Although the lawyer technically wins the case, everything of value seems lost in the meantime. His services are paid for in rabbits because the aunt has no currency, and in the end, the nephew cons his aunt into parting with her savings anyway. Other cases expose similar types of petty corruption.
Director : Jaromil Jireš
Casts
Miloš Kopecký
JUDr. Lukášek
Marie Brožová
babička Márová
Jaroslav Satoranský
Joun
Martin Růžek
soudce JUDr. Petřík
Zlata Adamovská
sekretářka Zuzana
Alena Vránová
Lukášková
Pavel Zedníček
Pastyřík
Karel Augusta
Vrána
Soběslav Sejk
soudce JUDr. Špaček
Miroslav Plzák
MUDr. Petr Drasnar
Vlastimil Hašek
Chmelař
Jana Andresíková
Chmelařová
Marie Málková
Zdenička Vránová
Věra Kubánková
soudkyně
Vladimír Hlavatý
Chmelař, st.
Marcel Vašinka
číšník Láďa
Oldřich Velen
Pastyříkův komplic
Jitka Zelenohorská
Jaroslav Vozáb
předseda senátu
Raoul Schránil
Jiří Lír
obžalovaný
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