The Bonus (1975)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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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