Producers are facing two separate legal actions from people featured in Borat.

Both have taken out lawsuits against Twentieth Century Fox claiming they were tricked into appearing in the movie.

Firstly, two students at the University of South Carolina who were featured making drunken comments in the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy. Their case, that they were tricked into signing a consent form after drinking, is to be heard at a California court in December.

Now, another case with a lawsuit for $30 million (£15.8 million) has come from a pair of villagers in the village of Glod, Romania. Nicolae Todorache and Spiridom Ciorebea, who appeared in scenes used to show a Kazakh village, say they were told they were being filmed for a documentary about poverty.

Fox has rejected both claims. Of the latest, spokesman Gregg Brilliant insisted: "This was a movie that was being shot, and it was never presented as a documentary.

"The village was used as a set, and the villagers were hired as extras and actors to portray a fictional village in Kazakhstan. The entire movie is a satire, which exposes racism and intolerance."