The Bonus

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Evgeni Leonov Vasily Potapov, gang leader

Vladimir Samoylov Pavel Batartsev, managing director

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

Mikhail Gluzskiy Boris Shatunov, head of planning department

Nina Urgant Dina MIlenina, economist