CrimeActionAdventureComedy

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.

Release Date : 2006-04-19

Language :GermanFrenchArabic

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Artémis ProductionsGaumontMandarin CinémaM6 FilmsCanal+CinéCinémaM6Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral BelgeBelga Films

Production Country : France

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117

Original Name : Jean Dujardin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Larmina El Akmar Betouche

Original Name : Bérénice Bejo

Gender : Female

Character Name : La princesse Al Tarouk

Original Name : Aure Atika

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jack Jefferson

Original Name : Philippe Lefebvre

Gender : Male

Character Name : Setine

Original Name : Constantin Alexandrov

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le ministre égyptien

Original Name : Saïd Amadis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gardenborough

Original Name : Laurent Bateau

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le patron

Original Name : Claude Brosset

Gender : Male

Character Name : Raymond Pelletier

Original Name : François Damiens

Gender : Male

Character Name : L'imam

Original Name : Youssef Hamid

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le suiveur

Original Name : Khalid Maadour

Gender : Male

Character Name : Loktar

Original Name : Arsène Mosca

Gender : Male

Character Name : Slimane

Original Name : Abdellah Moundy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Plantieux

Original Name : Eric Prat

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moeller

Original Name : Richard Sammel

Gender : Male

Reviews

talisencrw

@talisencrw

2021-06-23

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.