Residents of a remote Romanian village have joined the backlash against Sacha Baron Cohen's hit movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Villagers in Glod, Romanian for "mud," are threatening to sue the film's producers for paying them a pittance to stand in for a Kazahk village in the movie.
Sacha Baron Cohen, as Borat, is being accused of duping Romanian villagers in Glod when he filmed his hit movie.(Matt Sayles/Associated Press)
They say they are horrified and humiliated after learning the movie ridicules their abject poverty and simple ways.
The residents say filmmakers got them to put farm animals in their homes and perform other crude antics.
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