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Payment in Kind (1980)

ALL 02/26/1980 (cs) Comedy 85 Min
  • Release
    02/26/1980
  • Production
    Filmové studio Barrandov
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    Causa Králík
  • Original language
    cs
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Jaromil Jireš

    Director

  4. Producer



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Payment in Kind (1980) 85 Min

ALL 02/26/1980 (cs)
Comedy
  • Release 02/26/1980
  • Production
    Filmové studio Barrandov
  • Original title Causa Králík
  • cs
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Jaromil Jireš

    Director

  2. Jaroslav Dietl

    Story

  3. Josef Valušiak

    Editor

  4. Producer



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