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The Bonus

The Bonus

Jan 01, 1974 1h 25m
6.5
14 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title The Bonus
Companies Lenfilm
Countries Soviet Union
Keywords business ethics, crew, industry, business, blue collar, construction
Evgeni Leonov

Evgeni Leonov

Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vladimir Samoylov

Vladimir Samoylov

Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Yankovskiy

Oleg Yankovskiy

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

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Nina Urgant

Nina Urgant

Dina MIlenina, economist
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Григорий Фроловский
Viktor Sergachyov

Viktor Sergachyov

Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov

Leonid Dyachkov

Victor Chernikov, division manager
Boryslav Brondukov

Boryslav Brondukov

Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Svetlana Kryuchkova

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Alexandra, hoistman
Aleksandr Pashutin

Aleksandr Pashutin

Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Michael Semyonov

Michael Semyonov

Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader