
The Alibi
2006
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.
Mikhail Nikitin
Vasily Potapov, gang leader
Boris Shatunov, head of planning department
Григорий Фроловский
Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command
Pavel Batartsev, managing director
Dina MIlenina, economist
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