Release Date

26 Feb, 1980

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Causa Králík

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Actors

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

Crew

Jaromír Šofr

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaromil Jireš

Michal Vostřez

Miroslav Stibr

Jiří Ondráček

Adriena Váchová

Vadim Petrov

Svatava Sophová

František Příhoda

Jana Šimonová

Josef Valušiak

František Belfín

Valerie Pitelková