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.
Camera | Jaromír Šofr | Director of Photography |
Writing | Jaroslav Dietl | Screenplay |
Directing | Jaromil Jireš | Director |
Directing | Michal Vostřez | Assistant Director |
Art | Miroslav Stibr | Set Decoration |
Camera | Jiří Ondráček | Assistant Camera |
Crew | Adriena Váchová | Script |
Sound | Vadim Petrov | Original Music Composer |
Costume & Make-Up | Svatava Sophová | Costume Design |
Costume & Make-Up | František Příhoda | Makeup & Hair |
Editing | Jana Šimonová | Assistant Editor |
Editing | Josef Valušiak | Editor |
Sound | František Belfín | Conductor |
Costume & Make-Up | Valerie Pitelková | Makeup & Hair |
Writing | Jaroslav Dietl | Story |
Costume & Make-Up | Zdena Šnajdarová | Costumer |
Directing | Miroslav Kubišta | First Assistant Director |
Writing | Miroslav Hladký | Creative Producer |
Crew | Zdeněk Dufek | Dramaturgy |
Art | Rudolf Kinský | Set Decoration |
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 |
Crew | Lenka Němečková | Script |
Camera | Karel Hejsek | Camera Operator |
Art | Jan Oliva | Production Design |
Camera | Jan Kuděla | Still Photographer |
Costume & Make-Up | A. Pavlíková | Costumer |
Art | Zdeněk Jeřábek | Set Decoration |