The Bonus

The story

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

E Evgeni LeonovVasily Potapov, gang leader V Vladimir SamoylovPavel Batartsev, managing director O Oleg YankovskiyLev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command M Mikhail GluzskiyBoris Shatunov, head of planning department N Nina UrgantDina MIlenina, economist A Armen DzhigarkhanyanGrigoriy Frolovskiy V Viktor SergachyovRoman Lyubaev, safety engineer L Leonid DyachkovVictor Chernikov, division manager B Boryslav BrondukovAlexander Zyubin, foreman S Svetlana KryuchkovaAlexandra, hoistman A Aleksandr PashutinOleg Kachnov, gang leader M Mikhail SemyonovTolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader