Payment in Kind

Payment in Kind

Comedy | March 26, 1980

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.

Payment in Kind

Comedy | March 26, 1980

Payment in Kind
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.
Producers Filmové studio Barrandov
Original title Causa králík
Directors Jaromil Jireš
Writers Jaroslav Dietl

Cast

Miloš Kopecký

as JUDr. Lukášek

Marie Brožová

as babička Márová

Martin Růžek

as soudce JUDr. Petřík

Zlata Adamovská

as sekretářka Zuzana

Alena Vránová

as Lukášková

Pavel Zedníček

as Pastyřík

Karel Augusta

as Vrána

Soběslav Sejk

as soudce JUDr. Špaček

Miroslav Plzák

as MUDr. Petr Drasnar

Vlastimil Hašek

as Chmelař

Vladimír Hlavatý

as Chmelař, st.

Jana Andresíková

as Chmelařová

Marie Málková

as Zdenička Vránová

Marcel Vašinka

as číšník Láďa

Věra Kubánková

as soudkyně

Ladislav Goral

as Demeter

Eugen Jegorov

as zloděj Dušek

Oldřich Velen

as Pastyříkův komplic

Slávka Hamouzová

as členka senátu

Vladimír Navrátil

as prokurátor

Jan Cmíral

as předseda soudu

Jiří Lír

as obžalovaný

Jaroslav Vozáb

as předseda senátu

Karel Bělohradský

as řidič taxíku

Jan Kotva

as prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel

Michael Tarant

as soudce

Irena Hahnová

as Jana

Gabriela Najmanová

as obžalovaná

Vít Pešina

as soudce

Bohuslav Ličman

as prokurátor