Borat - Cultural Education of America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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Movie
German title Borat - Cultural Education of America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Original title Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Country of production United States
original language English , Armenian , Hebrew
Publishing year 2006
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
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Director Larry Charles
script Anthony Hines ,
Peter Baynham ,
Sacha Baron Cohen ,
Dan Mazer
production Jay Roach ,
Sacha Baron Cohen
music Erran Baron Cohen
camera Anthony Hardwick ,
Luke Geissbuhler
cut Craig Alpert ,
Peter Teschner ,
James Thomas
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Borat - Cultural Learning from America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (mostly simply Borat ) is an American mockumentary from 2006 . For Sacha Baron Cohen it is the second leading role in a movie after Ali G in da House . Here, too, Cohen worked on the script and took on the lead role of Borat Sagdiyev , a Kazakh television reporter. The film premiered on September 8, 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival .

The German premiere, at which the screenwriter and leading actor Sacha Baron Cohen was also present, took place on October 11th in Cologne. A preview was held in 13 cities on October 25th. The general German cinema release was on November 2nd, 2006. On January 15th, 2007 Sacha Baron Cohen received the Golden Globe Award for his role in Borat in the category "Best Actor - Comedy or Musical" .

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Borat Sagdiyev, a Kazakh television reporter and antiziganist with an openly anti-Semitic and misogynist attitude, has been commissioned by the Kazakh Interior Ministry to travel to the United States to study the customs and habits of the people there. The Kazakh government hopes to benefit from the information.

After Borat says goodbye to his wife, sister and idyllic village life, he flies to New York City with his producer Azamat Bagatov . As soon as he arrives, he tries to research the locals by introducing himself to them and - according to Kazakh tradition - giving them a brotherly kiss . After getting to know the New York subway , he rents a hotel room where he watches the local television program late at night. Here he discovers his dream woman, the blonde, well-proportioned Californian lifeguard C. J. - alias Pamela Anderson - from the Baywatch series , with whom he immediately falls in love.

The next day he received a telegram about the death of his wife in a bear attack, so that he was excited to travel to California with his producer to meet his Pamela Anderson. Since Azamat is unwilling to fly again, the two buy a car and drive to the west coast . On his journey, Borat meets real people in their real life and often embarrasses them or embarrasses them. For example, he sings his own Kazakh version of the US national anthem at a rodeo at the Salem Civic Center, Virginia. Politicians Bob Barr and Alan Keyes also have to endure him during an interview.

On their further tour in the direction of Malibu , the two of them also stay in a boarding house with Jews, whom Borat regards as the embodiment of all evil, so that he quickly gets a real bear to ensure his safety. From now on they will take this with them on their journey. During another stop in another city, Borat catches his producer, stark naked, masturbating with his Baywatch notebook in his hand as he comes out of the bathroom. An open argument ensues and Azamat leaves Borat.

Without money, without ID and without his producer, Borat continues his journey to Pamela. After a car breaks down, he is picked up as a hitchhiker by a group of male fraternity students who share some of his attitudes about women and minorities. Here he learns that his alleged virgin Pamela is not the untouched person he always thought she was - they show him porn films in which she starred. He falls into a serious crisis, which he overcomes by attending a service at the United Pentecostal Church .

Arrived in Hollywood , he meets Azamat again, and a reconciliation ensues. At an autograph session he finally meets Pamela Anderson, whom he confesses his love and proposes to her. Before she can even answer, in allegedly Kazakh tradition he puts a sack embroidered with her name over her in order to abduct her . But Pamela manages to escape from Borat, who is caught and imprisoned a short time later.

In the final sequence you can see Borat taking a bus back to the east coast to take his flight home. In between he stops at Luenell, an African American prostitute whom he met on the way through the USA. He takes her to Kazakhstan as his wife.

background

Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) at the Germany premiere in Cologne

The shooting was carried out with a crew of only eight. The filmmakers used a hit-and-run style. The term is u. a. Used in Anglo-Saxon parlance for a military tactic, what is meant in this context is the surprising appearance of the film team and its quick disappearance without a fixed script. This style of filmmaking led them to conflict with the law; arrests were made and the team was shadowed by the FBI because local residents believed they were terrorists.

All people involved in the filming allegedly signed declarations of consent to participate in a film. However, there was no mention of a Hollywood production, but rather a Kazakh documentary. Harsh criticism can be heard in particular from Glod , a Romanian town that is the backdrop for the fictional Kazakh hometown of Kuzcek of the reporter Borat, which, according to the actor Sacha Baron Cohen , is near Almaty . Meanwhile, on behalf of two villagers, Munich attorney Michael Witti and his US partner Ed Fagan filed a lawsuit against the production company 20th Century Fox for 30 million US dollars. The lawsuit, however, was unsuccessful.

In September 2006, US President George W. Bush dealt with the provocative remarks by Sacha Baron Cohen. The background to this was a meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , who complained to him about Cohen's racist statements. With the fictional character Borat, Cohen had portrayed Kazakhstan as a back-forest state in which prostitution, arms-pushing and discrimination against marginalized groups are on the agenda. This satire was received very negatively by the Kazakh side. US President George W. Bush wanted to avoid further diplomatic incidents. The domain registration borat.kz was deleted because the website and the film's international image of Kazakhstan sullied .

For German theatrical release of the film Borat European Center for was in Germany from Hamburg-based Antiziganism criminal charges of sedition filed. Television companies that broadcast commercials for the film and the daily newspaper Die Welt were also displayed in the same way. The charges were then examined by the Hamburg public prosecutor. In an interview with the Berlin taz , the complainant, Marko D. Knudsen, explained why he considers the film to be dangerous for peaceful coexistence despite its grotesque satire character. Although the traces of the advertisements fizzled out - there are no verdicts on this in the Hamburg justice portal - the campaign led to the establishment of antiziganism as a term.

The first outraged reactions from the Kazakh Foreign Ministry and the complaint by the Kazakh representation in Washington to the US magazine The New Yorker proved to be very effective in promoting the hype . The Kazakh foreign ministry threatened to take legal action against the disparaging portrayal of the country and launched an image campaign including a four-page large advertisement in the New York Times to make Kazakhstan better known in the world. In the meantime, the country's best-known television entertainer is said to have participated in the satirical teasing as Borat's brother after the film's black- humored character was recognized. At the same time, the Focus reports that Kazakhstan has meanwhile given in and invited Borat to his home country . After the film was released, the number of tourist visas issued increased tenfold, according to the Kazakh Foreign Minister, who officially thanked Baron Cohen.

Further background information and critical voices: Sacha Baron Cohen: Controversies about the characters

Others

Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) at the England Premiere in Leicester Square , London
  • In the title logo of the film and in insertions in commercials for the film, all A's are replaced by the Cyrillic D (“ Д ”) (“BORДT”).
  • At the premiere of the film, Borat caused a stir when he drove up to the red carpet in a horse- drawn cart . The performance itself, however, was a fiasco . After about 20 minutes the projector failed and the show had to be stopped. Borat then invited the audience to come to his hotel, wrestle naked and shoot dogs from the window.
  • Borat's greetings Jagshemash! is from Polish ( Jak się masz? ) and means How are you? . Borat's exclamation Dschenkuje (heard in the final scene , among others) from Polish dziękuję , which means thank you, is also from Polish . Azamat speaks mostly Armenian with Borat.
  • The swimsuit in which Borat goes swimming is called a mankini . Although he only appears briefly in the film when Borat talks about his hobbies, he has gained a certain popularity.
  • The person at the end of the credits is the President of Azerbaijan , İlham Əliyev .
  • Dustin Hoffman and Russell Crowe known themselves as fans of the character Borats.
  • Borat's character comes from Albania in early depictions by Baron Cohen. This is also a fictional television reporter who was originally named Kristo.
  • Already on the opening weekend, the film played 26.4 million alone in the United States dollar one. He sat down with his intake strength u. a. against Santa Clause 3 , which was shown in four times as many cinemas and was able to top the box office charts in six European countries, including Cohen's homeland, the United Kingdom . This also makes Borat the highest-grossing film that was shown in fewer than 1,000 cinemas. In the first ten days, visitors left nearly $ 68 million at the US box office. Overall, the film grossed over US $ 261 million worldwide at an estimated production cost of US $ 18 million.
  • Sacha Baron Cohen's brother Erran Baron Cohen, who belongs to the British band Zöhar , composed parts of the film music . However, compositions by the composer Goran Bregović can also be heard in the film. These include, for example, the song Ederlezi from the album of the same name Ederlezi .
  • The Roma singer Esma Redžepova had demanded 800,000 euros in damages from the filmmakers because they had used her song Čaje šukarije without her knowledge. However, it turned out that the filmmakers had obtained the approval of their record company without informing Esma. Redžepova was outraged because the record company hadn't asked what kind of film it was. She complains that her song can now be found in a film that, she says, laughs at Roma, Jews and Americans. The record company paid Redžepova 26,000 euros in compensation. Esma broke off its collaboration with the record company based in the Netherlands and is now working with a German record company.
  • The final scene with Pamela Anderson at an autograph session is half real and half posed. The original scene was supposed to take place at a dog wedding, but the producers thought that this scene would look staged without Ken Davitian, who was not there on the first shoot. They filmed other takes at an autograph session, but later came to another autograph session, which was ultimately shown in the film. Pamela Anderson's escape was real, the actress ran in a panic into an unknown car and did not return until a quarter of an hour later. According to reports from the New York Post mentioned in the network newspaper , Pamela Anderson was informed about the roughly prescribed script. A dispute about her participation in this film, which she enjoyed, was the trigger for the separation from Kid Rock .
  • The character Borat is very similar to the Turkish Mahir Cagri in appearance and his distinctive phrases, which are recited in broken English . He had already published his personal homepage on the Internet in 1999, which, with the increasing popularity of the WWW, quickly developed into an Internet phenomenon with very high visitor numbers. The homepage only contains a self-portrayal of Cagris in text form, accompanied by commented personal photos. The text is only written in very broken and largely incorrect English. Cagri's unusual comments caught the eye. The greeting phrase I kiss you !!!! was particularly striking. as well as the sentence I like sex used in the Borat film . Another similarity to the fictional Borat is that Cagri is also a journalist. The photos shown show Cagri in Speedo swimming trunks on the beach with friends or simply in a badly fitting suit, which is also reminiscent of the typical Borat outfit. Sacha Baron Cohen has not made any known statements about the similarity of the character Borat to Cagri.
  • At the ceremony the Kazakh gold medalist in Shooting Maria Dmitrjenko in Kuwait on March 23, 2012 is not the correct Kazakh anthem, but its parody was made accidentally Borat played in the country due to its potash exports and the region's cleanest prostitutes is praised. The medalist accepted the award with an unmoved expression.
  • The German dubbing voice for Borat is Tobias Meister .

Reviews

According to the film releases, "he hits the right mix of biting social satire and sheer nonsense". The editors warn of the "absolute danger of cult films" and do not shy away from comparisons with the "political quick wittedness of Michael Moore " and "a good helping of Jackass ". Jürg Tschirren goes one step further and specifies that it is less about “physical risks, but more about social - social jackass, so to speak”. Last but not least, the Focus makes use of the same comparison and writes: "If Michael Moore had a sense of humor and 'Jackass' was political, then one could say, Moore meets Jackass." Skin: “When humor becomes painful”, because “the film is so bad that it takes your breath away, and the character is so funny that it hurts.” The Süddeutsche Zeitung named him in the weekend edition of 21./22. October the "funniest man in the world". The reviews in the USA are also rolling over the top, with the Rotten Tomatoes film site counting 91% positive reviews. The lexicon of international film said that the film made it as good as impossible to “draw a line between documentation and fiction” and also irritated “with a sometimes very flat and crude humor”. Spiegel Online reported that the film had not received a screening permit in Russia and that a Kazakh diplomat was of the opinion that the film gave a false image of the Kazakhs and was completely unrealistic.

Awards

Award nominated won
Oscar 2007 Best adapted script
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2007 Best Comedy Movie
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2006 Best Young Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Golden Globe Awards 2007 Best film - comedy or musical Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2006 Best Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 Best Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) Best Young Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)
San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2006 Best Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006 Best Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)
Writers Guild of America 2007 Best adapted script
German Comedy Award 2006 Best International Comedian (Sacha Baron Cohen)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Borat - Cultural Learning of America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 753 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for Borat - Cultural Learning of America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ roanoke.com stored in web.archive.org
  4. ↑ http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1243165 Borat rodeo
  5. ↑ roanoke.com stored in web.archive.org
  6. ↑ spiritualabuse.org
  7. ↑ a b c “Borat” - When humor becomes painful , criticism of the movie Borat at Cineman.ch, Jürg Tschirren
  8. ↑ a b c d The nice Fascho from next door , Focus , 44/2006, p. 72, October 30, 2006.
  9. ↑ Poor Romanian villagers not amused by Borat success at their expense  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , William J. Kole, Associated Press , Nov. 15, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / keyetv.com  
  10. ↑ Lawsuit against Borat: Star lawyers represent villagers , Spiegel Online , amg / dpa , November 28, 2006.
  11. ^ State affair, huge trouble for Ali G , oe24 , September 13, 2006.
  12. ^ Diplomatic entanglements, Trouble for Borat , kino.de, Washington, September 13, 2006.
  13. ↑ The New York Times : Kazakh officials don't see spoof's humor , December 15, 2005.
  14. ^ Press release ( Memento of December 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) of the European Center for Research on Antiziganism, October 17, 2006.
  15. ↑ I feel offended , taz , November 2, 2006, p. 14, Daniel Wiese
  16. ↑ Borat Aktion Etablishing the Antiziganism term , European Center for Antiziganism Research, March 5, 2018, Marko D. Knudsen
  17. ↑ Kazakhstan Not Laughing at 'Ali G'. abc News, November 15, 2005, accessed March 25, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row. Mail online, accessed on March 25, 2014 (English).
  19. ↑ Borat films Absurdistan ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Readers Edition of the Netzeitung from November 3, 2006.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.readers-edition.de
  20. ↑ The Huffington Post : Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Borat' Is Good For Tourism, Says Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov , Brogan Driscoll, April 23, 2012.
  21. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Borat in the Sauerland. P. 25.
  22. ↑ weltinfo.com , PhraseBook Poland; omniglot.com "How are you?" in many languages
  23. ↑ Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat , Daily Telegraph , New York, Harry Mount, September 15, 2006.
  24. ^ Ali G Before He Was Massiv , Channel 5 , March 27, 2002.
  25. ↑ More and more Borat actors are fighting back , Spiegel Online , amg / dpa , November 13, 2006.
  26. ↑ Borat at the top of the UK box office
  27. ^ Borat's Big Opening , Central Asia News - All Central Asia, All The Time
  28. ↑ Borat expands bo reign , The Hollywood Reporter, November 13, 2006, Nicole Sperling
  29. ↑ Statistics at boxofficemojo.com , accessed on August 6, 2010.
  30. ^ Sacha Baron Cohen ( Memento October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), biography at Yahoo!
  31. ↑ alo.rs ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alo.rs
  32. ↑ Interview with Ken Davitian in Deadline 04/2008, pp. 66/67.
  33. ↑ "Pamela Anderson -" Borat "to blame for divorce" , Focus , November 29, 2006.
  34. ^ "Borat is guilty" ( Memento of May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung , November 29, 2006.
  35. ↑ Mahir Cagris Homepage ( Memento from July 26, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  36. ↑ cnet.com ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cnet.com
  37. ↑ Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medalist in Kuwait. BBC News, March 23, 2012, accessed March 25, 2014 .
  38. ↑ YouTube video of the honor
  39. ↑ Outrage in Kazakhstan - Kuwait honors athlete with "Borat" song on Spiegel Online
  40. ↑ Critique of the movie Borat , filmstarts.de, Christoph Petersen
  41. ↑ Borat at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  42. ↑ Borat - Cultural Learning of America to Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  43. ↑ Russia - "Borat" must stay outside , Spiegel Online , amg, November 9, 2006.

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