Fear not, that Borat DVD you bought at Best Buy is not pirated, although appearances are somewhat deceiving.
As it turns out the DVD release of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was made to look low-budget. Apparently there is not a word of english on the packaging. The DVD cover also appears to look color-copied (complete with off color tones, slightly blurred company logos, blurry text and moire pattern/lithographic scans. Now that’s funny.
As always, click the above image to see a higher res copy.
The DVD hits stores on March 6th, 2007.








February 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
hitting the image doesn’t work…
February 27th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Just click this link http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/boratdvdbig.jpg for the large version.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Oh, my bad. It works fine.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Thanks…
And it still doesn’t work fine but the link is great, thanks jack
February 28th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Don’t click on the photo it seemed to download some shit on to my computer
March 1st, 2007 at 7:41 am
Actually, only the DVD case itself is printed in Russian. The O-card on the outside (what is visible when on the shelf) is printed in the Queen’s English.
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 am
I’m sure the Canadian version will mandate it have a French side
March 6th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Bought the canadian version… o-card has english and french… case under is still as described… russian and bootleg-looking
March 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
oh yeah… and the DVD inside appears burned… until you look at the underside
March 6th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Yeah OnlyRumors I found that the outside was normal but I didn’t venture into the packaging. This is in a Welsh Morrisons.