Glod, Dâmbovița

Glod is a Roma village in the commune of Moroeni, Dâmbovița County, Romania, having a population of 1,723 as of 2011. The majority of residents are of Romani descent. Its name is an archaic word for "mud" in Romanian. The village is located near the towns of Pucioasa and Fieni.

Glod
Village
Glod Location of Glod, Dâmbovița
Coordinates: 45°14′29″N 25°27′2″E
Country	Romania
County	Dâmbovița County
Elevation	627 m (2,057 ft)
Population
• Total	1,723
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)

Role in Borat

Glod was a shooting location for the 2006 mockumentary film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (but was not used in the 2020 sequel), representing Borat's fictional home village of Kuzcek, Kazakhstan. For the original film, the villagers of Glod were paid the equivalent of four U.S. dollars a day each for their appearances and were told the film would be a documentary about the hardships of rural village life.^[1] According to 20th Century Fox, the movie's comedic nature was obvious to everyone since it included many blatantly absurd and ridiculous scenes, such as one of a cow living inside someone’s house.^[2] Fox claims that the production team and star Sacha Baron Cohen each donated $5,000 to the town, as well as paid a location fee, and bought computers, school supplies, and business supplies for the residents. Two residents of Glod, Nicolae Staicu and Spiridon Ciorbea (portrayed in the film as the town's mechanic and abortionist, under the pun name of Mukhtar Sakanov; a play on Mukhtar Shakhanov), hired the services of Edward Fagan to sue the producers of the film, but the lawsuit was thrown out by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in a hearing in early December 2006 on the ground that the charges were too vague and nebulous to stand up to legal examination in court.^[3] Many villagers were furious about their portrayal in the mockumentary. When an ABC News crew visited the town, they were shooed away with brooms. Spiridon later told the crew, “If I see Borat, I will kill him with my own hands.”^[4]