Payment in Kind
Causa Králík
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.
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Cast
Martin Růžek
as soudce JUDr. Petřík
Vlastimil Hašek
as Chmelař
Marie Málková
as Zdenička Vránová
Miloš Kopecký
as JUDr. Lukášek
Soběslav Sejk
as soudce JUDr. Špaček
Jiří Lír
as obžalovaný
Karel Augusta
as Vrána
Miroslav Plzák
as MUDr. Petr Drasnar
Jana Andresíková
as Chmelařová
Vladimír Hlavatý
as Chmelař, st.
Oldřich Velen
as Pastyříkův komplic
Pavel Zedníček
as Pastyřík
Jaroslav Satoranský
as Joun
Alena Vránová
as Lukášková
Jitka Zelenohorská
Zlata Adamovská
as sekretářka Zuzana
Raoul Schránil
Marie Brožová
as babička Márová
Věra Kubánková
as soudkyně
Marcel Vašinka
as číšník Láďa
Jaroslav Vozáb
as předseda senátu
