Payment in Kind
1980-02-26 | 85 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Miloš KopeckýJUDr. Lukášek
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Marie Brožovábabička Márová
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Jaroslav SatoranskýJoun
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Martin Růžeksoudce JUDr. Petřík
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Zlata Adamovskásekretářka Zuzana
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Alena VránováLukášková
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Pavel ZedníčekPastyřík
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Karel AugustaVrána
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Soběslav Sejksoudce JUDr. Špaček
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Vlastimil HašekChmelař
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Jana AndresíkováChmelařová
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Marie MálkováZdenička Vránová
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Věra Kubánkovásoudkyně
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Vladimír HlavatýChmelař, st.
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Marcel Vašinkačíšník Láďa
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Oldřich VelenPastyříkův komplic
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