I don't realy know but I think that'd be a myth only because I'd think someone would notice a mic. on him eventually

No. They told people they were doing a documentary on Kazakhstan when they went their and then told people in America they were there to do a documentary.

I think a lot of it. In some parts they must have said that it was for a documentry.

No hidden camera stuff, really. The plastered everyone with waivers and told them that they were filming for a Kazakhstan TV show/movie. they never actually went to Kazakhstan, and filmed the "Borat's home town" stuff in a gypsy village in Romania, if my memory serves me correctly. They got away with most of it by just pretending to be completely incompetent. Several sections where also scripted/planned ahead.

No he said he was shooting a documentary.

No hidden camera. All were apparently told it was a documentary but there were some pissed off people. They never expected the results. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-415871/Borat-film-tricked-poor-village-actors.html

Yeah, they said that they were filming a documentary and the people that were in the movie weren't actors. They really thought it was a documentary so they had to sign waivers. But when the movie came out everyone that was in the movie, especially Kazakhstan, sued him for false pretenses. So, no, no hidden cameras.

1) I have seen often the expression "hidden camera" in Borat's reviews. However, it does not look like the "hidden camera" trick were used so much in that movie. The camera is mostly perfectly in view, and the people taking part are perfectly aware that they are filmed. What is hidden is the real identity of Borat himself, who is actually a fictional character, and the real intention of the making of the movie is also hidden at the moment were it is filmed. 2) "With the exception of Borat, Azamat, Luenell and Pamela Anderson, none of the characters are portrayed by actors. Most scenes in the film were unscripted, although the end credits do credit a "Naked Fight Coordinator." In most cases the film's participants were given no warning on what they would be taking part in except for being asked to sign release forms agreeing not to take legal action against the film's producers. Filming was already underway in January 2005, when Cohen caused a near riot in what would ultimately be the rodeo scene in the final cut of the film. An interview with Cohen by Rolling Stone indicated that over 400 hours of footage had been shot for the film, while IMDb states that during this time Borat's antics led to police being called on Cohen 91 times. The end credit footage is taken from Soviet-era Estonian Television commercials, and the man represented at the end of the sequence as Kazakhstan's president is in reality Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev. The "Kazakhstan" depicted in the film has little or no relationship with the actual country and the producers explicitly deny attempting to "convey the actual beliefs, practices or behavior of anyone associated with Kazakhstan" in the "all persons fictitious" disclaimer. The scenes showing Borat's home village were filmed in the Gypsy village of Glod, Romania." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat 3) "Cohen isn't forcing anyone to say any of those things, and in essence gets them to truly reveal themselves. It's not as if they're using hidden camera's to bait these people into saying these craaaazy things, these people were just arrogant enough to believe that there would be no repercussion from their words since it was a “foreigner” interviewing them for a foreign broadcast." Source and further information: http://www.cinematical.com/2006/10/25/is-borat-unethical/ 4) "In the feature length film, we have a few hidden camera antics (and several of those we have are staged, like the one where Borat travels a spell with some truly obnoxious fratboys) and plenty of Borat serving as an ignorant fish-out-of-water in American society." Source and further information: http://stevemillersband.yuku.com/topic/1592/t/Borat-is-great-fun-but-not-quite-the-movies-some-claim.html 5) "The film is essentially a series of hidden camera style sketches cobbled together making for one hilarious film. What works best is the way Cohen completely throws himself into his character never breaking for an instance and capturing the reactions of his unsuspecting "victims" on camera. What Cohen as Borat often reveals is a revelatory commentary about the United States and all its ignorance." Source and further information: http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/borat/4430 (those are "hidden camera *style* sketches", but not *true* hidden camera sketches) 6) "A hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is either not visible to the subject being filmed, or is disguised as another object. " "Some hidden camera shows have led to lawsuits or being denied to air by the people who were trapped in set-ups that they found unpleasant." "Hidden cameras are also sometimes used in reality television to catch participants in unusual or absurd situations. Participants will either know they will be filmed, but not always exactly when or where, or do not know they have been filmed until later, at which point they may sign a release of give consent to the footage being produced for a show." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_camera

Well, the movie was just a feature length version of Da Ali G Show, but with just Borat. That means that he set up these interviews and things with the people thinking he was actually a guy from Kazakhstan named Borat...it was all a big joke. So, no hidden camera was necessary. In fact, most of the people probably expected a camera.