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The Bonus (1974)

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.

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Evgeni LeonovEvgeni LeonovVasily Potapov, gang leader
  • Photo of Vladimir SamoylovVladimir SamoylovPavel Batartsev, managing director
  • Photo of Oleg YankovskiyOleg YankovskiyLev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
  • Photo of Mikhail GluzskiyMikhail GluzskiyBoris Shatunov, head of planning department
  • Photo of Nina UrgantNina UrgantDina MIlenina, economist
  • Photo of Armen DzhigarkhanyanArmen DzhigarkhanyanГригорий Фроловский
  • Photo of Viktor SergachyovViktor SergachyovRoman Lyubaev, safety engineer
  • Photo of Leonid DyachkovLeonid DyachkovVictor Chernikov, division manager
  • Photo of Boryslav BrondukovBoryslav BrondukovAlexander Zyubin, foreman
  • Photo of Svetlana KryuchkovaSvetlana KryuchkovaAlexandra, hoistman

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