About Businessman Foma(1993)

About Businessman Foma is a Soviet comedy that follows Foma, a kolkhoz worker with an unlikely entrepreneurial streak. When he proposes building a pay toilet in his rural village, the scheme sparks fierce resistance from his neighbors, who view the venture as both absurd and a betrayal of collective values. What unfolds is a clash between Foma's capitalist ambitions and the village's traditional way of life, played for laughs as the community grapples with this peculiar challenge to their customs. The film captures the tension between individual enterprise and communal obligation with satirical humor, offering a quirky snapshot of Soviet rural attitudes toward commerce and progress.