The Bonus
Seen it?1975 | 85 min | Drama
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for anyone who loves a strong drama.
- The mood
- Thoughtful and character-driven.
- The pace
- Takes its time with its characters, at 1 hr 25 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in Russian, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Made in 1975: an older pace and style.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 1K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Sergey Mikaelyan
- 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