The Rabbit Case
– In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that featu..
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.
01 Feb 1980
Czech
Jaromil Jires
Jaroslav Dietl
Marie Brozová, Milos Kopecký, Jaroslav Satoranský, Zlata Adamovská
Oldrich Lukásek (Milos Kopecký), a respected Prague solicitor, lets him shifted for health reasons to the small town at the foot-hills. In the local advocate advice bureau impatiently awaits him his secretary Zuzana (Zlata Adamovská) and work at the penal and offense cases, sometimes odd and humorous, sometimes tragic. Experienced Lukásek soon starts orientating not only in judicial cases but also at the situation of the small town, in which, as elsewhere, exist dishonesty, flyness and pressure of the powerful by influence or money.
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