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Ukraine ban for 'explicit' Bruno

Bruno has fallen foul of the censors in Ukraine, who claim Sacha Baron Cohen's

raucous new comedy could "damage the morality" of its citizens.

The Ukrainian ministry of culture told local film distributor Sinergia it had

"decided to ban all showings of this film on Ukrainian territory".

Bruno, it said, "contains unjustified showing of genital organs".

In addition, the film depicts what the ministry calls "homosexual perversions"

in an "explicitly realist manner".

Rated 18 in the UK, Bruno sees Cohen playing a gay Austrian fashion reporter

who travels to the US to make his name.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has warned audiences the film

contains "strong sex and sex references".

'Artistically unjustified'

Cohen's previous comedy, Borat, was denied a distribution licence in Russia for

poking fun at its neighbour and close ally Kazakhstan.

However, it is Bruno's treatment of homosexuality that has enraged officials of

the conservative Ukraine.

Nine members of the culture ministry's 14-person commission voted for a total

ban of the film, currently topping the box office chart on both sides of the

Atlantic.

The commission cited the film's "artistically unjustified exhibition of sexual

organs and sexual relations, homosexual acts in a blatantly graphic form,

obscene language, sadism [and] anti-social behaviour" as the reasons behind its

decision.