Baron Cohen, who is an outspoken campaigner against Holocaust denial and Facebook misinformation dedicated Borat Subsequent Moviefilm to Evans, and his production team told Deadline that she was told afterwards of the satirical nature of the scene.
A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen’s new satirical comedy which – like its 2006 predecessor Borat – identifies Kazakhstan as the home country of its fictional journalist character Borat Sagdiyev.
Another of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’s difficulties appears to have been resolved after a lawsuit filed by the estate of Judith Dim Evans, a Holocaust survivor who appears in the film, was dismissed.
The protest reflects similar complaints in 2006 on the release of the first Borat film, after which Baron Cohen was forced to defend his selection of Kazakhstan as the butt of onscreen jokes.