OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

2006

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.

Rating

7.238
1769 votes

Popularity

2.1767

Origin & Countries

FR | fr | France,Belgium

Production

Artémis Productions,Gaumont,M6 Films,Canal+,CinéCinéma,M6,Mandarin Cinéma

Runtime

99 min.

Budget (M$)

23.1 / 15.2ROI 152%

Status

Released

Release: 4/19/2006

Credits

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Michel HazanaviciusDirector

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Jean DujardinHubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Bérénice BejoLarmina El Akmar Betouche

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Aure AtikaLa princesse Al Tarouk

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Philippe LefebvreJack Jefferson

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Reviews

talisencrw

5/11/2016

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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