The Bonus (1974)

The Bonus (1974)

All the adventure a man can live, he lives. 1974-01-01 Soviet Union 85 Min. PG-13
6.5 14 votes
Drama, TV Movie

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

Evgeni Leonov is Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Vladimir Samoylov is Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Yankovskiy is Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Mikhail Gluzskiy is Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Nina Urgant is Dina MIlenina, economist
Dina MIlenina, economist
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan is Григорий Фроловский
Григорий Фроловский
Viktor Sergachyov is Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov is Victor Chernikov, division manager
Victor Chernikov, division manager
Boryslav Brondukov is Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Svetlana Kryuchkova is Alexandra, hoistman
Alexandra, hoistman
Aleksandr Pashutin 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