The Bonus (1974)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1974 (RU)
  • Drama, TV Movie
  • 1h 25m

Overview

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.

Aleksandr Gelman

Screenplay

Sergei Mikaelyan

Director

Cast

Evgeni Leonov's headshot

Evgeni Leonov

Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vladimir Samoylov's headshot

Vladimir Samoylov

Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Yankovskiy's headshot

Oleg Yankovskiy

Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Mikhail Gluzskiy's headshot

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Nina Urgant's headshot

Nina Urgant

Dina MIlenina, economist
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's headshot

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Григорий Фроловский
Viktor Sergachyov's headshot

Viktor Sergachyov

Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov's headshot

Leonid Dyachkov

Victor Chernikov, division manager

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