The Bonus (1974)

The Bonus (1974)

1974-01-01 Soviet Union 85 Min. PG-13
6.5 14 votes

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.

Cast

Евгений Леонов is Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Владимир Самойлов is Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Олег Янковский is Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Михаил Глузский is Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Нина Ургант is Dina MIlenina, economist
Dina MIlenina, economist
Армен Джигарханян is Григорий Фроловский
Григорий Фроловский
Виктор Сергачев is Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov is Victor Chernikov, division manager
Victor Chernikov, division manager
Борислав Брондуков is Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Александр Пашутин is Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Michael Semyonov is Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader
Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader