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Payment in Kind (1980)

Directed by Jaromil Jireš

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.

Length 85 minutes

Actors

Jitka Zelenohorská | Alena Vránová | Jaroslav Satoranský | Jaroslav Vozáb | Miloš Kopecký | Karel Augusta | Martin Růžek | Pavel Zedníček | Jiří Lír | Michael Tarant | Soběslav Sejk | Zlata Adamovská | Karel Belohradský | Vlastimil Hašek | Oldřich Velen | Marie Brožová | Vladimír Hlavatý | Eugen Jegorov | Vladimír Navrátil | Marie Málková | Miroslav Plzák | Bohuslav Ličman | Věra Kubánková | Marcel Vašinka | Vít Pešina | Gabriela Najmanová | Ladislav Goral | Jan Cmíral | Jana Andresíková | Miluše Zoubková | Slávka Hamouzová | Jan Kotva | Irena Hahnová