The Bonus

The Bonus

1975 · 85 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

A small construction team led by Potapov suddenly refuses to receive a bonus payment from their company for exceeding performance targets. The team accuses its construction company HQ with artificially reducing the targets, so they can be easily exceeded. It makes the management looks good, yet leads to frequent downtime reducing earnings for common construction workers even with fake bonuses. On a hastily organized meeting the management tries to subdue the "unruly" gang leader charging that he cannot know all details. It turned out that Potapov and his team prepared a detailed business analysis, which proved their point. Managers, who had different interests and positions, have to decide how to deal with the real problem leading to unexpected results.

Directed by Sergey Mikaelyan · Written by Aleksandr Gelman

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Evgeni Leonov Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vladimir Samoylov Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Yankovsky Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Mikhail Gluzskiy Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Nina Urgant Dina MIlenina, economist
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Grigoriy Frolovskiy
Viktor Sergachyov Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov Victor Chernikov, division manager
Boryslav Brondukov Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Svetlana Kryuchkova Alexandra, hoistman
Aleksandr Pashutin Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Mikhail Semyonov Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader

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