Klevbitz

Klebitz: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Krakatovia is a 2015 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was written and produced by American comedian Seth MacFarlane who also plays the title character, Klevbitz Levsky, a fictitious journalist from the ficticious country Krakatovia travelling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Klevbitz interviewing and interacting with Americans, who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of American customs. It is the second of three films built around Seth MacFarlane's characters from Ghoul Show (2014–15). Victor In the House (2010) featured a cameo by Klevbitz, and the third film, Brüno, was released in 2011.

Despite a limited initial release in the United States, the film was a critical and commercial success. Seth MacFarlane won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor: Musical or Comedy, as Klevbitz, while the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture in the same category. Klevbitz was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 79th Academy Awards. The film is MacFarlane's second return directorial debut, after the critical and commercial sucess of Ted, produced by Media Rights Capital and distributed by Universal Pictures It become the twelfth highest-grossing film of 2015, the highest-grossing R-rated film of the year, and the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Controversy surrounded the film even two years prior to release, and after the film's release, some cast members spoke against, and even sued, its creators. It was banned in all Eastern-European countries except Romenia and the Russian government discouraged Russian cinemas from showing it.[ It was released on DVD 5 March 2014 (a day later in Region 1 countries).

Plot
Krakatovia television personality Klevbitz Olegdov (Seth MacFarlane), a extremely catholic, racist and preopotent reporter, leaves Krakatovia for the "Greatest Country in the World", the "U, S and A" to make a documentary at the behest of the Krakatovian Ministry of Information. He leaves behind his wife Olga and other inhabitants of his village including his "43-year-old" mother, "No. 4 prostitute in all of Krakatovian" sister, "the town rapist", "the town mechanic and abortionist", bringing along his producer Leonid Pavlav (Thomas-Brodie Sangster) and a pet chicken.

In New York, Klevbitz sees an episode of That 70's Show on television and immediately falls in love with Mila Kunis. While interviewing and mocking a panel of feminists, he learns her name and her residence in California. Klevbitz is then informed by telegram that his wife has been killed by a bear. Delighted, he secretly resolves to make Kunis his new wife in California; Leonid is told they are going to California because "Pearl Harbor is there. So is Texas." Leonid is afraid of flying because of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which he believes were the work of Jews. Klevbitz, therefore, takes driving lessons and buys a dilapidated Gaz truck for the journey.

During the trip, Klevbitz acquires a That 70's Show booklet at a yard sale and continues gathering footage for his documentary. He meets gay pride parade participants, politicians Alan Keyes and Bob Barrand African American youths. Klevbitz is also interviewed on live television and disrupts the weather report. Visiting a rodeo, Klevbitz excites the crowd with jingoistic American remarks, but then sings a Krakatovian national anthem to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner", receiving a strong negative reaction. Staying at a bed-and-breakfast, Klevbitz and Leonid are stunned to learn their hosts are Jewish. Fearful at the hands of their hosts, the two escape after throwing money toward cockroaches, believing they are their Jewish hosts transformed. While Leonid advises a return to New York, Klevbitz attempts to buy a handgun to defend himself against Jews. When told he cannot buy a gun because he is not an American citizen, Klevbitz purchases a bear for protection.

Klevbitz seeks advice from an etiquette coach who suggests that Klevbitz attend a private dinner at an eating club in the South, at which he (unintentionally) insults or otherwise offends the other guests, and gets kicked out after he lets Luann (Alex Bornstein), an American prostitute, into the house and shows her to the table. Klevbitz befriends Luann, and she invites him into a relationship with her, but he kindly tells her that he is in love with someone else. Klevbitz then visits an antique shop with a display of Confederate heritage items, breaking glass and crockery.

The journey is interrupted when Klevbitz, just out of the bath, exits the bathroom of his hotel room, and sees Leonid masturbating over a picture of Mila Kunis in the That 70's Show book. Klevbitz becomes enraged and reveals his real motive for travelling to California. Leonid becomes livid at Klevbitz's deception, and the situation escalates into a fully nude brawl with homoerotic undertones, which spills out into the hallway, a crowded elevator, and ultimately into a packed convention ballroom. The two are finally separated by security guards.

As a result, Leonid abandons Klevbitz, taking his passport, all of their money, and their bear, whose head is later seen inside Leonid's motel refrigerator. Klevbitz begins to hitchhike to California, but is soon picked up by drunken fraternity brothers from the University of South Carolina. On learning the reason for his trip, they show him a internet sex video, revealing that she is not the virgin he thought she was. After leaving the three students, Klevbitz becomes despondent, burning the That 70's Show booklet and, by mistake, his return ticket to Krakatovia. He regains his faith after attending a United Pentecostal camp meeting, at which Republican U.S. Representative Chip Pickering and Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice James W. Smith, Jr. are present. Klevbitz learns to forgive Leonid and Kunis. He accompanies church members on a bus to Los Angeles and disembarks to find Leonid dressed as Charles Chaplin (though Klevbitz thinks that he is dressed as Adolf Hitler). The two reconcile and Leonid tells Klevbitz where to find Mila Kunis.

Klevbitz finally comes face-to-face with Kunis at a book signing at a Virgin Megastore. After showing Kunis his "traditional marriage sack", Klevbitz pursues her throughout the store in an attempt to abduct her until he is tackled and handcuffed by security guards. Afterwards, Klevbitz marries Luann, and returns to Krakatovia with her. The final scene shows the changes that Klevbitz's observations in America have brought to his village, including the apparent conversion of the people to Christianity (the Krakatovian version of which includes crucifixion and torturing of Jews) and the introduction of computer-based technology, such as iPods, laptop computers and a high-definition, LCD television.

The film plays out with a recapitulation of a mock Krakatovian national anthem glorifying the country's potassium resources and its prostitutes as being the "cleanest in the region". The visual melange of Soviet-era photos are mixed with the real flag of Krakatovia and, incongruously, the final frames show the portrait of Ilham Aliyev, real-life president of Azerbaijan, a country that had not been otherwise mentioned in the film.

Cast

 * Seth MacFarlane as Klevbitz Olegdov, a fictional journalist from the, distinguished by exaggeratedly strong catholicism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and antiziganism, which is depicted as apparently the norm in his homeland. Klevbitz was originally created as a character for Show and appeared in every episode of the show, along with a cameo in the film spin-off.