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OSS 117: From Africa with Love

1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission - more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever - he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.

Release Date : 2021-08-04

Language :FrenchGerman

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : GaumontMandarin ProductionM6 FilmsSCOPE Pictures

Production Country : France

Alternative Titles : OSS 117: From Africa with Love

Cast

Character Name : Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath / OSS 117

Original Name : Jean Dujardin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Serge / OSS 1001

Original Name : Pierre Niney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Armand Lesignac

Original Name : Wladimir Yordanoff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zéphyrine Bamba

Original Name : Fatou N'Diaye

Gender : Female

Character Name : Micheline Pierson

Original Name : Natacha Lindinger

Gender : Female

Character Name : Roland Lépervier

Original Name : Gilles Cohen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Léon Nkomo

Original Name : Pol White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Le broussard

Original Name : Brice Fournier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Moulinier

Original Name : Bruno Paviot

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jacquard

Original Name : Karim Barras

Gender : Male

Character Name : Calot

Original Name : Jean-Édouard Bodziak

Gender : Male

Character Name : Martichou

Original Name : Benoît Joubert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Un homme à l’Hôtel Moderne

Original Name : Nicolas Bedos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Un membre du gang de Lépervier

Original Name : Frédéric Vallet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jean-Loup

Original Name : Martial Courcier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chantal

Original Name : Marie-Gaëlle Cals

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pamplemousse

Original Name : Emile Abossolo M'bo

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Ted Etienne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Koudjo Sangawe Bamba

Original Name : Balla Habib Dembélé

Gender : Male

Character Name : Josy Le Dentu

Original Name : Christelle Cornil

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jessica pilote russe

Original Name : Melodie Casta

Gender : Male

Character Name : Promedi

Original Name : Ibrahim Koma

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kazimir

Original Name : Ivan Franěk

Gender : Male

Reviews

Per Gunnar Jonsson

@Dark Jedi

2024-05-16

I have to admit that this was rather painful to watch. I have not seen any of the other OSS 117 movies. The main reason I watched this one was because my girlfriend wanted to watch it. Since she has seen the other two entries in the franchise (I have not though) and since this one takes place in Africa and as she is from Senegal she, of course, had a special interest in watching it. Myself, I thought since they have made three of these movies and since I’ve heard some people say they liked them I thought how bad can it be so last weekend we sat down and watched it. I guess I was wrong. For me, this was a bad movie. It really tries hard to be some kind of spy movie (James Bond ?) parody but it just becomes plain silly. Most of the jokes are far from funny and the few that are funny are just mildly funny. OSS 117 is so bloody stupid that it is not at all funny. The movie is largely a political parody about the French and their supposedly “colonial” aspirations. Political parodies are almost never entertaining and usually ends up offending someone so why bother? The hugely exaggerated “French mindset” is just bullshit. The Africans are not portrayed much better and in the middle of everything sits the biggest jerk of them all, a pinnacle of stupidity… OSS 117. On top of everything they’ve made OSS 117, well let’s just say sexually challenged, and when he finally get’s laid he promptly screws it up just by opening his mouth and let his insanely stupid monologues blurt out. Not surprisingly the story was bland and unimaginative not to mention predictable and the acting was overall substandard. I do not know if the previous movies were any better. From the reviews a fair number of people seems to think so. I would like to think so. After all, I cannot see how they would have gotten financing for three movies if the first two where as bad as this one.