SummaryAfter a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France's reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebe... Read More
Directed By:Michel Hazanavicius
Written By:Jean-François Halin, Jean Bruce, Michel Hazanavicius
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
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The real joy here is the performance of Jean Dujardin, who, besides being very funny as the Gallic Maxwell Smart, is also enormously charismatic and is made to look uncannily (and I do mean uncannily) like the young Sean Connery of "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger."
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A consistently entertaining parody that never once makes you feel like an idiot for laughing out loud at its idiocy.
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Jul 9, 2025
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un humour ma foie Veillot mais à mourir de rire, remplie de référence c'est une référence
May 11, 2016
9
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 **** 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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A giddy French comedy.
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Light and fun, if also a little slight, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is like a pleasant sorbet to wash away the aftertaste of the pre-summer clunkers.
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An arch espionage comedy that's never as amusing as it thinks it is.
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A movie whose satire proves as lame as its clunky title.
25
Let the French stick to love stories and leave stupid comedies to Tinseltown.
Jan 9, 2015
4
For a few smart scenes, this movie is unfunny for me. It was been there, done that, plain and simple. I hate the silliness in it, the embarrassing scenes which people are mechanized to laugh at, which is an insult. I don't like it. It isn't a good comedy, dumb and sophomoric. Bad.
Production Company:
- Gaumont
- Mandarin Films
- M6 Films
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Artémis Productions
- M6
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- Belga Films
Release Date:May 9, 2008
Duration:1 h 39 m
Tagline:The Prride of French Intelligence
Awards
César Awards, France
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 2 Nominations
Étoiles d'Or, France
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























