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.
Евгений Леонов
as Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Владимир Самойлов
as Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Олег Янковский
as Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Михаил Глузский
as Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Нина Ургант
as Dina MIlenina, economist
Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան
as Григорий Фроловский
Виктор Сергачёв
as Roman Lyubaev, safety engineer
Леонид Дьячков
as Victor Chernikov, division manager
Борислав Брондуков
as Alexander Zyubin, foreman
Светлана Крючкова
as Alexandra, hoistman
Александр Пашутин
as Oleg Kachnov, gang leader
Михаил Семёнов
as Tolya Zharikov, concrete worker, team's komsomol leader
