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The Bonus
The Bonus

The Bonus

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

85 mins

Rating

6.563/10

Release Date

01 January 1974

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Evgeni Leonov

Evgeni Leonov

Vasily Potapov, gang leader

Vladimir Samoylov

Vladimir Samoylov

Pavel Batartsev, managing director

Oleg Yankovskiy

Oleg Yankovskiy

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

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Boris Shatunov, head of planning department

Nina Urgant

Nina Urgant

Dina MIlenina, economist

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Григорий Фроловский

Viktor Sergachyov

Viktor Sergachyov

Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer

Leonid Dyachkov

Leonid Dyachkov

Victor Chernikov, division manager

Boryslav Brondukov

Boryslav Brondukov

Alexander Zyubin, foreman

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Alexandra, hoistman

Aleksandr Pashutin

Aleksandr Pashutin

Oleg Kachnov, gang leader

Michael Semyonov

Michael Semyonov

Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader

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