borat clip It's a measure of Baron Cohen's dexterity that he plants his alter ego on both sides of the Jewish Question. Kazakhstan-actually shot in Romania-is a nightmare Eastern Europe where peasants bunk with livestock, torment Gypsies, and stage a traditional Running of the Jew, chasing giant-fanged puppets through their muddy village. But as a native of this barbaric shtetl, Borat is also a non-Christian other who-by virtue of his primitive nature-ridicules the hypocrisy of the dominant social order. borat clip