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
Vladimir Samoylov
Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Oleg Yankovskiy
Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Nina Urgant
Dina MIlenina, economist
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Григорий Фроловский
Viktor Sergachyov
Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Leonid Dyachkov
Victor Chernikov, division manager
Boryslav Brondukov
Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Alexandra, hoistman
Aleksandr Pashutin
Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Mikhail Semyonov
Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader
