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.
as JUDr. Lukášek
as babička Márová
as Joun
as soudce JUDr. Petřík
as sekretářka Zuzana
as Lukášková
as Pastyřík
as Vrána
as soudce JUDr. Špaček
as MUDr. Petr Drasnar
as Chmelař
as Chmelařová
as Jana
as Zdenička Vránová
as soudkyně
as Demeter
as zloděj Dušek
as Chmelař, st.
as číšník Láďa
as Pastyříkův komplic
as předseda senátu
as předseda soudu
as řidič taxíku
as prokurátor/Zuzanin přítel
as prokurátor
as prokurátor
as obžalovaný
as obžalovaná
as soudce
as soudce
as členka senátu
