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.
Unfortunately the movie Payment in Kind is not yet available on HBO Max.
Writing | Jaroslav Dietl | Screenplay |
Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
Directing | Jaromil Jireš | Director |
Directing | Miroslav Kubišta | First Assistant Director |
Writing | Miroslav Hladký | Creative Producer |
Directing | Michal Vostřez | Assistant Director |
Crew | Lenka Němečková | Script |
Crew | Adriena Váchová | Script |
Writing | Jaroslav Dietl | Story |
Crew | Zdeněk Dufek | Dramaturgy |
Camera | Karel Hejsek | Camera Operator |
Camera | Jiří Ondráček | Assistant Camera |
Art | Jan Oliva | Production Design |
Art | Zdeněk Jeřábek | Set Decoration |
Art | Rudolf Kinský | Set Decoration |
Art | Miroslav Stibr | Set Decoration |
Costume & Make-Up | Svatava Sophová | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Zdena Šnajdarová | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | A. Pavlíková | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | František Příhoda | Makeup & Hair |
Costume & Make-Up | Valerie Pitelková | Makeup & Hair |
Editing | Josef Valušiak | Editor |
Editing | Jana Šimonová | Assistant Editor |
Sound | Antonín Kravka | Sound |
Production | Eliška Nejedlá | Production Manager |
Production | Jana Koubová | Unit Production Manager |
Production | Ladislav Beneš | Unit Production Manager |
Camera | Dagmar Jonášová | Clapper Loader |
Camera | Jan Kuděla | Still Photographer |
Sound | Vadim Petrov | Original Music Composer |
Sound | František Belfín | Conductor |