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October Surprise 2024

Borat Lawsuit Shock: The Day Two Romanians Fought Back Against the Film

A lawsuit against Borat was subsequently filed by two Romanians. As pointed out by our colleagues at Le Nouvel Obs in 2006, Nicolae Todorache and Spiridom Ciorebea, residents of the village of Glod, demanded $30 million from the movie’s producers, as they were portrayed as Kazakhs despite being told that the project was a documentary about poverty in Romania depicting their real lives. The …