Payment in Kind (1980)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1980-02-26
Runtime: 85 minutes
Director: Jaromil Jireš
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- Miloš Kopecký as JUDr. Lukášek
- Marie Brožová as babička Márová
- Jaroslav Satoranský as Joun
- 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
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