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The Bonus

(1974)

January 1, 1974 1h 25m
65%
TMDB Score

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.

Sergey Mikaelyan

Director

Top Billed Cast

EL

Evgeni Leonov

Vasily Potapov, gang leader

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Vladimir Samoylov

Pavel Batartsev, managing director

OY

Oleg Yankovskiy

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

MG

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Boris Shatunov, head of planning department

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Nina Urgant

Dina MIlenina, economist

AD

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Григорий Фроловский

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Viktor Sergachyov

Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer

LD

Leonid Dyachkov

Victor Chernikov, division manager

BB

Boryslav Brondukov

Alexander Zyubin, foreman

SK

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Alexandra, hoistman