The Bonus (1975)
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.
- Released
- 1975-09-22
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Aleksandr Gelman, Sergey Mikaelyan
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 19 votes
Cast
- Evgeni Leonov as Vasily Potapov, gang leader
- Vladimir Samoylov as Pavel Batartsev, managing director
- Oleg Yankovsky as Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
- Mikhail Gluzskiy as Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
- Nina Urgant as Dina MIlenina, economist
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Grigoriy Frolovskiy
- Viktor Sergachyov as Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
- Leonid Dyachkov as Victor Chernikov, division manager
- Boryslav Brondukov as Alexander Zyubin, foreman
- Svetlana Kryuchkova as Alexandra, hoistman
- Aleksandr Pashutin as Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
- Mikhail Semyonov as Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader