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Raymond Pelletier
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Khalid Maadour | ... |
Le suiveur
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L'imam
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Arsène Mosca | ... |
Loktar
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Setine
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Le patron
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Saïd Amadis | ... |
Le ministre égyptien
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Plantieux
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Abdellah Moundy | ... |
Slimane
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Philippe Lefebvre | ... |
Jack Jefferson
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Moeller
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La princesse Al Tarouk
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Larmina El Akmar Betouche
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An homage to classic spy films. It's 1955 and after a fellow agent and close friend disappears, secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. 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 is busy investigating, foiling Nazi holdouts, quelling a fundamentalist rebellion, and bedding local beauties. Written by Signy
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
9 May 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies See more »Filming Locations:
Casablanca, MoroccoBox Office
Budget:
€14,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$31,418 (USA) (9 May 2008)Gross:
$302,752 (USA) (10 October 2008)Company Credits
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Dolby DigitalAspect Ratio:
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Written by Pierre Perrin (as P. Perrin), Claude Blondy (as C.L. Blondy)
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The German title of this film, "OSS 117 - Der Spion, der sich liebte", is a prank on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. It literally means "OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Himself". See more »Goofs
In Plantieux's office, Hubert finishes his glass of bourbon, downing the last of it in one gulp. Yet a moment later, without the glass having been refilled, he again finishes his glass of bourbon in the same manner. See more »Soundtracks
"Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge"Written by Pierre Perrin (as P. Perrin), Claude Blondy (as C.L. Blondy)
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OSS 117 was fun from start to finish.
It's difficult to define why one film touches or connects with you or not, and I won't try to analyze such perfect comedy, so politically incorrect that even academic papers should be dedicated to it :)!
Everything is old fashioned here, from women's clothes (sigh!), Mambo dance, the "hero singing"... ("Bambino" sounds like an Italian canzonetta sung in... arabic :)!).
Hubert is physically imposing, but dumb as hell. From all the 007s, he looks like Sean Connery, but is definitely more sympa because he's... silly, speaks his mind all the time, giggles, even has some homoerotic fantasies and there are rumours about him. In short, as an anti hero, he rocks :)! Sometimes he only raises his eyebrows or frowns, and that's all it takes to make you laugh.
Bérénice Bejo is the true queen of the film. Graceful, treacherous but with ideals. Aure Atika, to the contrary, is reduced to a femme fatale of sorts. It's surprising to see her that "sexy bomb", thou.
You just can't compare it with "Austin Powers"! I agree with Amazon's D. Hartley (Seattle, WA) on it being respectful to the genre.
Which is your favourite scene? One of my favourite scenes is the "fight of the chickens" with the masked villain. But the truly perfect one is when chatting at the cocktail with his contacts, how they all mutter platitudes with confidence... This scene alone makes the comedy genre worthwhile.