The Bonus

The Bonus

85 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 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.

The Bonus

85 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 1, 1974

The Bonus
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Премия
Directors V. Tomakh, Sergei Mikaelyan
Writers Aleksandr Gelman

Cast

Evgeni Leonov

as Vasily Potapov, gang leader

Vladimir Samoylov

as Pavel Batartsev, managing director

Oleg Yankovskiy

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 Григорий Фроловский

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

Michael Semyonov

as Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader