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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

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7.2/10 • 1.8K

2006-04-191h 39m

CrimeActionAdventureComedy

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

Directors
Michel Hazanavicius
Editors
Reynald Bertrand

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Jean Dujardin

    Jean Dujardin

    Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117

  2. Bérénice Bejo

    Bérénice Bejo

    Larmina El Akmar Betouche

  3. Aure Atika

    Aure Atika

    La princesse Al Tarouk

  4. Philippe Lefebvre

    Philippe Lefebvre

    Jack Jefferson

  5. Constantin Alexandrov

    Constantin Alexandrov

    Setine

  6. Saïd Amadis

    Saïd Amadis

    Le ministre égyptien

  7. Laurent Bateau

    Laurent Bateau

    Gardenborough

  8. Claude Brosset

    Claude Brosset

    Le patron

  9. François Damiens

    François Damiens

    Raymond Pelletier

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talisencrw

May 11, 2016

9/10

This was a solid debut for Hazanavicius and a very fun film. There's uneven pacing, but I was very pleased with this, which seemed an interesting hybrid between the James Bond and Pink Panther film series. I loved the scoring and cinematography as well. Dujardin's character was a bit strange and the pacing was a tad uneven, but those are small flaws. This is the first of Hazanavicius' films I have seen, though I have 'The Artist' on blu. I've heard that in the sequel, he jumps a decade to the 60's--it would be interesting, if they decide to eventually continue the series, if each film could be of following decades, straight through to the present day. It was clever of the writers, through parallelism, to subconsciously suggest a linkage of the Nazis to radical Arab terrorists, so soon after 9/11, and, six years before 'Skyfall', what anyone knowing anything about espionage and counterintelligence would undoubtedly know--that all agents would probably be bisexual. I look forward to checking out Hazanavicius' other films, and hope there are eventually more in this series, for I have loved all kinds of spy films and spoofs of them, in the history of cinema.

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$15,200,000.00
Revenue
$23,055,884.00
Keywords
francecaironaziespionagesecret agentfrench intelligence