

The Bonus
1975, Russian. Directed by Sergey Mikaelyan.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Sergey MikaelyanDirector
- Evgeni LeonovVasily Potapov, gang leader
- Vladimir SamoylovPavel Batartsev, managing director
- Oleg YankovskyLev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
- Mikhail GluzskiyBoris Shatunov, head of planning department
- Nina UrgantDina MIlenina, economist
- Armen DzhigarkhanyanGrigoriy Frolovskiy
- Viktor SergachyovRoman Lyubaev, safety engineer
- Leonid DyachkovVictor Chernikov, division manager
- Boryslav BrondukovAlexander Zyubin, foreman
- Svetlana KryuchkovaAlexandra, hoistman
- Aleksandr PashutinOleg Kachnov, gang leader
- Mikhail SemyonovTolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader
Details
- Released
- 22 September 1975
- Original title
- Премия
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Aleksandr Gelman
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The Bonus runs 85 minutes (1h 25m).
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The Bonus isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 22 September 1975. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Bonus?
The Bonus (1975) was directed by Sergey Mikaelyan and stars Evgeni Leonov, Vladimir Samoylov, Oleg Yankovsky.