Payment in Kind
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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.
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Miloš Kopecký
JUDr. Lukášek
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Marie Brožová
babička Márová
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Jaroslav Satoranský
Joun
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Marie Brozová
bábicka Anna Márová
Martin Růžek
soudce JUDr. Petřík
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Zlata Adamovská
sekretářka Zuzana
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Alena Vránová
Lukášková
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Pavel Zedníček
Pastyřík
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Karel Augusta
Vrána
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Soběslav Sejk
soudce JUDr. Špaček
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Miroslav Plzák
MUDr. Petr Drasnar
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Vlastimil Hašek
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Jaromil Jireš Director · Jaroslav Dietl Screenplay Vadim Petrov Composer
First release February 26, 1980 · Produced in XC, Czechia · Production Barrandov Studios
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Filmové studio Barrandov
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Barrandov Studios
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XC · Czechia
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Original title
Causa Králík
Original language
Czech
Spoken on screen
Czech
Release dates
XC · February 26, 1980
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