Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Michel Hazanavicius
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| Jean Dujardin | ... | Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117 | |
| François Damiens | ... | Raymond Pelletier | |
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Khalid Maadour | ... | Le suiveur |
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Youssef Hamid | ... | L'imam |
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Arsène Mosca | ... | Loktar |
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Constantin Alexandrov | ... | Setine |
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Claude Brosset | ... | Le patron |
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Laurent Bateau | ... | Gardenborough |
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Saïd Amadis | ... | Le ministre égyptien |
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Eric Prat | ... | Plantieux |
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Abdellah Moundy | ... | Slimane (as Abdallah Moundy) |
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Philippe Lefebvre | ... | Jack Jefferson |
| Richard Sammel | ... | Moeller | |
| Aure Atika | ... | La princesse Al Tarouk | |
| Bérénice Bejo | ... | 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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friend | spy | bound and gagged | arms tied overhead | lingerie slip |Taglines:
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Country:
FranceRelease Date:
9 May 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
€14,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$31,418, 11 May 2008, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$302,752, 12 October 2008Company Credits
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La princesse Al Tarouk: No. Tied up.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Gagged, too?
La princesse Al Tarouk: Yes.
[after OSS 117 binds a scarf over her mouth, the princess starts to make enthusiastic noises]
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Eh?
[OSS 117 pulls the scarf from her mouth]
La princesse Al Tarouk: Come here, snake!
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Make it fast. I only have a few hours.
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Written by Pierre Perrin (as P. Perrin), Claude Blondy (as C.L. Blondy)
© Les Editions Musicales Caravelle
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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 (1977). It literally means "OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Himself". See more »Goofs
When OSS 117 learns to count in Arabic, Larmina coaches him: "Wahed, Jouj...". She should be counting in Egyptian Arabic, but instead she uses Moroccan Arabic. An Egyptian would not use (or understand) "Jouj" for two. The word is "Itnayn". See more »Quotes
[after agreeing to make love to the princess, OSS 117 begins to untie her from the bed]La princesse Al Tarouk: No. Tied up.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Gagged, too?
La princesse Al Tarouk: Yes.
[after OSS 117 binds a scarf over her mouth, the princess starts to make enthusiastic noises]
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Eh?
[OSS 117 pulls the scarf from her mouth]
La princesse Al Tarouk: Come here, snake!
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Make it fast. I only have a few hours.
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Un clair de Lune à MaubeugeWritten by Pierre Perrin (as P. Perrin), Claude Blondy (as C.L. Blondy)
© Les Editions Musicales Caravelle
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Just saw the movie, it's actually pretty good. The trailers'd left me an impression of either yet another Dujardin one-man-show-turned-film (à la _Brice de Nice_) or an expensive, stupid French comedy. Surprisingly, it's neither. Secret agent OSS 117 is stupid, but at least he sort of knows it, whereas I've always found that James Bond was stupid but acted like a smart arse. Dialogue is witty with a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour that one would expect from a British rather than a French movie. The women and the music are beautiful. A refreshing trip into the past, when the bad guys were ex-Nazis or Soviet brutes, cars were shiny, and France had colonies!