Payment in Kind
85 mins
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.
Miroslav Plzák
MUDr. Petr Drasnar
Irena Hahnová
Jana
Ladislav Goral
Demeter
Eugen Jegorov
zloděj Dušek
Jan Cmíral
předseda soudu
Karel Bělohradský
řidič taxíku
Jan Kotva
prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel
Bohuslav Ličman
prokurátor
Vladimír Navrátil
prokurátor
Gabriela Najmanová
obžalovaná
Vít Pešina
soudce
Michael Tarant
soudce
Slávka Hamouzová
členka senátu
Jaromír Šofr
Director of Photography
Jaroslav Dietl
Screenplay
Michal Vostřez
Assistant Director
Miroslav Stibr
Set Decoration
Jiří Ondráček
Assistant Camera
Adriena Váchová
Script
Svatava Sophová
Costume Design
František Příhoda
Makeup & Hair
Jana Šimonová
Assistant Editor
Josef Valušiak
Editor
František Belfín
Conductor
Valerie Pitelková
Makeup & Hair
Jaroslav Dietl
Story
Zdena Šnajdarová
Costumer
Miroslav Kubišta
First Assistant Director
Miroslav Hladký
Creative Producer
Zdeněk Dufek
Dramaturgy
Rudolf Kinský
Set Decoration
Antonín Kravka
Sound
Eliška Nejedlá
Production Manager
Jana Koubová
Unit Production Manager
Ladislav Beneš
Unit Production Manager
Dagmar Jonášová
Clapper Loader
Lenka Němečková
Script
Karel Hejsek
Camera Operator
Jan Oliva
Production Design
Jan Kuděla
Still Photographer
A. Pavlíková
Costumer
Zdeněk Jeřábek
Set Decoration