The latest film by British comic actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator, has been pulled from movie theaters in Kazakhstan, two weeks after it premiered in the Central Asian republic, RIA Novosti reported.
The film has been dropped from cinema schedules in the capital, Almaty, distributors confirmed to RIA Novosti. Kazakh authorities have not commented.
It was earlier banned in nearby Tajikistan due to the incpmpatibility with the "mentality of the people," the country's only distributor said.
The film features Baron Cohen as General Aladeen, the tyrannical ruler of the oil-rich north African rogue state Wadiya.
In 2006, Kazakhstan banned another Cohen comedy, Borat, which followed Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev as he travelled to the U.S. on a mission to learn lessons for his country.
However, the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, later claimed he had found the film rather funny. The country's foreign ministry also grudgingly admitted that after the release of Borat the number of tourists visiting the country, not the easiest place to get to, had rocketed.
Borat was at the center of controversy again in March when a spoof national anthem from the film was played at a sports event in Kuwait by mistake.
