Payment in Kind

Payment in Kind (1980)

Comedy

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.

Director: Jaromil Jireš
Writer: Jaroslav Dietl

Casts

	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
	Vlastimil Hašek as Chmelař
	Jana Andresíková as Chmelařová
	Irena Hahnová as Jana
	Marie Málková as Zdenička Vránová
	Věra Kubánková as soudkyně
	Ladislav Goral as Demeter
	Eugen Jegorov as zloděj Dušek
	Vladimír Hlavatý as Chmelař, st.
	Marcel Vašinka as číšník Láďa
	Oldřich Velen as Pastyříkův komplic
	Jitka Zelenohorská as
	Jaroslav Vozáb as předseda senátu
	Jan Cmíral as předseda soudu
	Lena Birková as
	Karel Bělohradský as řidič taxíku
	Miluše Zoubková as
	Jan Kotva as prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel
	Bohuslav Ličman as prokurátor
	Vladimír Navrátil as prokurátor
	Raoul Schránil as
	Gustav Jankovský as
	Jiří Lír as obžalovaný
	Gabriela Najmanová as obžalovaná
	Vít Pešina as soudce
	Josef Střecha as
	Michael Tarant as soudce
	Václav Syřiště as
	Josef A. Stehlík as
	Josef Jonáš as
	Slávka Hamouzová as členka senátu
	František Červinka as

Crew