Zinti Lern- und Übersetzungsforum

Nov 20, 8:33 PM EST

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of Nicolae Todorache and Spiridom Ciorebea, two residents of Glod, Romania, where residents were used as stand-ins for Kazakhs in the film.

and others involved in the comedy exploited them, telling them the movie was a documentary about extreme poverty in Romania that would fairly depict their lives, occupations, heritage and beliefs.

"The project was intended to portray the plaintiffs ...

In the movie, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen portrays a Kazakh journalist traveling across America in comic encounters that mock Americans.

The film's opening sequence showing Borat's hometown in Kazakhstan is shot in Glod, 85 miles northwest of Bucharest.

He said there was irony in the allegations in the lawsuit.

The movie has been a surprise hit at the box office, earning more than $90 million so far in the United States.

People in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan also have complained about their depiction in the film.

In addition, two members of a South Carolina college fraternity have sued 20th Century Fox and three production companies over their appearance in the movie making drunken, insulting comments about women and minorities.

With no gas heating or indoor plumbing, most keep warm with wood stoves and drink from wells.

Acrid fires smolder in trash piles on the outskirts of the village, and children - their clothing worn and torn - play in yards littered with stumps, scrap metal and other bric-a-brac.

"They took one of our 75-year-old ladies, put huge silicone breasts on her and said she was 47.

Another man they filmed to look like the poorest person in the world, and one of our men who is missing an arm had a plastic sex toy taped to his stump."

"We are suing because they were not truthful," added Staicu, who said he saw parts of "Borat" and was disgusted.

Neither Cohen's agent in London nor 20th Century Fox's offices in Los Angeles immediately returned phone messages Tuesday from The Associated Press.

The mood in Glod, meanwhile, was tense and volatile, with crowds of angry, shouting villagers repeatedly gathering around reporters.

One man was seen slapping his sister, who had appeared in the film, and slamming the gate to his ramshackle home shut to keep her from being interviewed.

People in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, where the mustachioed Cohen's character hails from as a TV journalist on an adventure across America, also have decried how they are depicted in the film, whose opening scenes were shot in Glod.

Not everyone in Glod is upset.

Sorina Luca, 25, excitedly described how she was given $3.30 to bring a pig into her home and let the producers put a toy rifle into the hands of her 5-year-old daughter for one scene.

The smash success of "Borat," she said, just rubbed salt in Glod's collective wounds.

1 weekend draw at U.S.

"They made us put a cow in our living room, and they made it defecate and urinate in the house.

Bin sprachlos was hier ab geht!!!!!!!!!.

Ihr nennt euch Sintie????.......

hahahaha jawohl hosaaa, und du ich manischer heckenscheisser was du bist ,genau o muss es sein mach weiter so hahahahahahaha ihr möchte gern italiener hahahahah

hallo ich was glaubst du zu wissen wer du bist ha?

lass die jenischen aus dem mund , du unerzogene persönlichkeit pfujjj,weist was wir immer sagen die manischen kochen eventuell gut , aber die jenischen schneiden besser hahahaha , und der rest ihh git prasserei vom feinsten ,würde mein mann das lesen (ein sinto) der würde sagen mama was sind das für sinte ,und dir junge wo die sprache veröffentlicht , mach wie du dengst , weil die sollen sich mal nicht aufregen haha sind ja auch in den chats und geben sich italienische niks und auch spanische , und wollen einer auf die machen schreiben auch spanisch ,,, was man nicht ergenzen kann oder italienisch hahahahahah, ihr möchte gern ,geschit euch recht !!!!!!!jala jala

Bockworschtwasser das müsst ihr prassen!!!

The film's distributor, 20th Century Fox, pulled ads in Germany that talked

suing the damaging utterly sick piece of crap Borat and co..