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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Evgeni Leonov
Vasily Potapov, gang leader
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Pavel Batartsev, managing director
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Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
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Dina MIlenina, economist
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Victor Chernikov, division manager
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Alexander Zyubin, foreman
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Alexandra, hoistman
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Sergey Mikaelyan Director · Aleksandr Gelman Screenplay Vladimir Chumak Cinematographer
First release September 22, 1975 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Премия
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Премия
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 22, 1975
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No release date listed for United States.
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