If ever a country needed rebranding, it's Kazakhstan. The Central Asian nation's international identity is shaped - unfairly, but inescapably - by the hit satirical film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which lampooned Kazakhstan as hopelessly backward, benighted and bigoted. Kazakh filmmakers hope to shake off that image - and energize their country's movie industry - with a big budget historical epic, "Myn Bala," which opens next month in theaters in the Central Asian nation.
If ever a country needed rebranding, it's Kazakhstan. The Central Asian nation's international identity is shaped — unfairly, but inescapably — by the hit satirical film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which lampooned Kazakhstan as hopelessly backward, benighted and bigoted.
