Days before an inspection committee arrives to consider his factory for a regional award, a boss discovers exactly how many personal crises are quietly ruining his workplace.
What is The Good Boss about?
A committee is due to visit his industrial scales factory and decide whether it deserves a regional award for excellence, and the owner has only a few days to make sure nothing in his workforce looks out of order. That turns out to mean far more than tidying the factory floor: employees carry grudges, distractions, and private troubles that keep spilling into work hours, and the boss inserts himself into each one, convinced that a personal touch is all any problem needs. His confidence in his own decency is never quite matched by his judgment, and the film treats that gap — between how he sees himself and what he actually does — as the whole joke, playing it dry rather than broad.
About the cast
Javier Bardem plays the factory owner at the center of the story, leading a large ensemble that includes Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor, and Óscar de la Fuente as employees whose personal lives increasingly overlap with the workplace. Sonia Almarcha, Fernando Albizu, María de Nati, and Tarik Rmili round out the factory and the boss's wider circle. The film spreads its attention across this ensemble rather than isolating any single subplot, letting the workplace itself function as the real setting of the comedy.
Context & significance
The Good Boss is a French-Spanish co-production directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, working in the workplace-comedy register rather than the harder social drama some of his earlier films are known for. Set almost entirely around one factory and the short window before an inspection, it belongs to a small tradition of films that use a single workplace as a lens on class, authority, and self-image, playing the boss's blind spots for comedy without ever letting him fully off the hook.
Watching The Good Boss on Ktime
The Good Boss streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the film's Spanish dialogue and workplace humor come through clearly either way. Access requires only a free account login — the description here stays open to everyone — and K-Time's Farsi interface makes it easy to find a comedy like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue.