The Bonus (1974)

Drama
TV Movie

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

Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader
Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Dina MIlenina, economist
Григорий Фроловский
Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Victor Chernikov, division manager
Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Alexandra, hoistman

Crew

Director of Photography
Assistant Director
Costume Design
Makeup Artist
Scenic Artist
Production Design
Production Design