Премия (1974) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 1974, Премия is a drame and téléfilm film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan, running about 85 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Премия stars Evgeni Leonov as Vasily Potapov, gang leader, Vladimir Samoylov as Pavel Batartsev, managing director, Oleg Yankovskiy as Lev Solomakhin, Communist party boss at the company, second-in-command and Mikhail Gluzskiy as Boris Shatunov, head of planning department, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.2/10, Премия has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Премия page.

If you liked it. Fans of Премия tend to enjoy Les Évadés, Le Parrain, La Liste de Schindler and Le Parrain, 2e partie.