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No Public Release for Borat Here
Russia won’t show the widely featured "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which is a keen satire on life and manners in today’s Kazakhstan. According to film distributors, they independently decided against public release of the film in Russia, having listened to reasons of State Committee of Cinematography, Goskino.
Borat’s first night in Russia was slated for November 30. But it won’t happen either that day or other - the bulletin of film distributors has reported cancellation of Russian premiere already.
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" is a film starring Sacha Baron Cohen and directed by Larry Charles. It is a comedy featuring Baron Cohen's satirical character of Kazakh reporter Borat, as he travels around the United States meeting different people. His ultimate purpose there is to marry Pamela Anderson.
Predictably, in Kazakhstan, they don’t share the global enthusiasm about Borat, though the authorities vowed in September that no ban would be imposed on it in the country. Spokesman of Kazakh Foreign Ministry, Erzhan Ashikbaev, was more explicit when he hoped that “distributors won’t show the film, as it insults the nation of Kazakhstan and may rouse censure of public at large that will blame connivance on the government.” The distributors didn’t neglect the advice, of course.
The bureaucrats of Russia were on guard as well. The comment of Goskino was humiliating for neighboring nation, and Russia’s Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography said the film could affect feelings of certain people. For distributors, this statement sufficed to decide against the public release of Borat. But the Russians will see it on DVD, the distributors promised.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 09, 2006
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