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5.30
January 1980
85 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
XC
Genres:
Comedy
Release:
February 1980
Production:
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast:
Miloš Kopecký, Marie Brožová, Jaroslav Satoranský, Martin Růžek, Zlata Adamovská, Alena Vránová, Pavel Zedníček, Karel Augusta, Soběslav Sejk, Miroslav Plzák, Vlastimil Hašek, Jana Andresíková, Irena Hahnová, Marie Málková, Věra Kubánková, Ladislav Goral, Eugen Jegorov, Vladimír Hlavatý, Marcel Vašinka, Oldřich Velen, Jitka Zelenohorská, Jaroslav Vozáb, Jan Cmíral, Lena Birková, Karel Bělohradský, Miluše Zoubková, Jan Kotva, Bohuslav Ličman, Vladimír Navrátil, Raoul Schránil, Gustav Jankovský, Jiří Lír, Gabriela Najmanová, Vít Pešina, Josef Střecha, Michael Tarant, Václav Syřiště, Josef A. Stehlík, Josef Jonáš, Slávka Hamouzová, František Červinka

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