The opening scenes of the film introduce the audience to Borat's hometown in Kazakhstan—a deeply impoverished, eccentric, and chaotic village. In reality, these scenes were filmed in the Roma (Gypsy) village of Glod, located in Romania.
When the local villagers are shouting, they are speaking authentic Romanian—completely unaware of the film's actual subject matter during shooting. The overlaying these scenes translate their Romanian exclamations and dialogue into intentionally absurd, wildly inappropriate "Kazakh" subtitles. This creates a hilarious tension for viewers who know Romanian, allowing them to hear the actual, mundane conversations taking place while reading the outrageous, satirical translation on screen. "Faux Cyrillic" and Linguistic Inconsistencies Borat 2006 Subtitles