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
February 26, 1980
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Miloš Kopecký
JUDr. Lukášek
Marie Brožová
babička Márová
Jaroslav Satoranský
Joun
Martin Růžek
soudce JUDr. Petřík
Zlata Adamovská
sekretářka Zuzana
Alena Vránová
Lukášková
Pavel Zedníček
Pastyřík
Karel Augusta
Vrána
Soběslav Sejk
soudce JUDr. Špaček
Miroslav Plzák
MUDr. Petr Drasnar
Vlastimil Hašek
Chmelař
Jana Andresíková
Chmelařová
Irena Hahnová
Jana
Marie Málková
Zdenička Vránová
Věra Kubánková
soudkyně
Ladislav Goral
Demeter
Eugen Jegorov
zloděj Dušek
Vladimír Hlavatý
Chmelař, st.
Marcel Vašinka
číšník Láďa
Oldřich Velen
Pastyříkův komplic
Jaroslav Vozáb
předseda senátu
Jan Cmíral
předseda soudu
Lena Birková
N/A
Karel Bělohradský
řidič taxíku
Miluše Zoubková
N/A
Jan Kotva
prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel
Bohuslav Ličman
prokurátor
Vladimír Navrátil
prokurátor
Raoul Schránil
N/A
Gustav Jankovský
N/A
Jiří Lír
obžalovaný
Gabriela Najmanová
obžalovaná
Vít Pešina
soudce
Josef Střecha
N/A
Michael Tarant
soudce
Václav Syřiště
N/A
Josef A. Stehlík
N/A
Josef Jonáš
N/A
Slávka Hamouzová
členka senátu
Eliška Nejedlá
Production Manager
Ladislav Beneš
Unit Production Manager
Jana Koubová
Unit Production Manager
Miroslav Stibr
Set Decoration
Jan Oliva
Production Design
Rudolf Kinský
Set Decoration
Zdeněk Jeřábek
Set Decoration
Jaromír Šofr
Director of Photography
Karel Hejsek
Camera Operator
Jan Kuděla
Still Photographer
Jiří Ondráček
Assistant Camera
Dagmar Jonášová
Clapper Loader
František Příhoda
Makeup & Hair
Svatava Sophová
Costume Design
A. Pavlíková
Costumer
Valerie Pitelková
Makeup & Hair
Zdena Šnajdarová
Costumer
Josef Valušiak
Editor
Jana Šimonová
Assistant Editor