OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ( 2006 ) ( OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions ) ( OSS 117: Le Claire - Nid D'Espions )

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ( 2006 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions
Alternate Title: OSS 117: Le Claire - Nid D'Espions
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( DTS 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Michel Hazanavicius

Written By:
Jean Bruce
Jean-François Halin

Actors:
Jean Dujardin ..... Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117
Bérénice Bejo ..... Larmina El Akmar Betouche
Aure Atika ..... La princesse Al Tarouk
Philippe Lefebvre ..... Jack Jefferson
Constantin Alexandrov ..... Setine
Saïd Amadis ..... Le ministre égyptien
Laurent Bateau ..... Gardenborough
Claude Brosset ..... Le patron
François Damiens ..... Raymond Pelletier
Youssef Hamid ..... L'imam
Khalid Maadour ..... Le suiveur
Arsène Mosca ..... Loktar
Abdellah Moundy ..... Slimane (as Abdallah Moundy)
Eric Prat ..... Plantieux
Richard Sammel ..... Moeller

Synopsis:

OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies constitutes the eighth installment in a long-running series of movies about OSS 117 (the government code name for Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath) - a French superspy and European equivalent of James Bond. The creation of author Jean Bruce, OSS eventually starred in over 265 novels and 7 cinematizations through 1970. The first seven film outings were sober and straight-faced; the eighth go-round (the first after a 38 year lapse) does a 180 to shamelessly poke fun of the rules established by the genre. A glib yet intelligent spoof, it joins the ranks of Our Man Flint (1965), Aghaye Hallou (1970), Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984), and other international pictures that glibly satirize the subgenre made infamous to Americans by Bond; like Mad Mission 3, it even packs in an OSS 17 (Jean Dujardin) with a startling resemblance to Sean Connery. The film's comic conceit involves making OSS arrogant, conceited, culturally insensitive, chauvinistic and thoroughly moronic (he pretends that various cultural institutions and religious practices, for instance, are nonexistent if he is unfamiliar with them); yet the character somehow manages to slide through outrageously dangerous situations unscathed, time and again. The teaser prologue finds OSS in Berlin, where he outwits the Nazis by stealing vital documents from them, hijacks an Axis plane in mid-nosedive and saves himself and the craft at the last yawning moment. Ten years later, OSS journeys from Rome to Cairo, where he investigates the death of a fellow agent, posing as the proprietor of a chicken farm. OSS's 'side' activities during this jaunt involve hammering out a peace arrangement for the Middle East, keeping tabs on the Suez Canal and monitoring the Russians. Jean-François Hallin scripted, maintaining an utterly deadpan tone throughout; Michel Hazanavicius directs.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 January, 2019.

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