View trailer

Watch now

Poster (click for hi-res image)

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Film Stills (click for a hi-res image)

OSS 117 removes his shades

Jean Dujardin as OSS 117

OSS 117 aims his gun in classic spy pose

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Béjo as Larmina

Backlit film director wearing headphones around his neck (black & white) in “OSS 117”

Director Michel Hazanavicius

OSS 117 in his tux at a party

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Béjo

OSS 117 shows a Middle Eastern man a photo

Jean Dujardin and Abdellah Moundy as Slimane

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

directed by Michel Hazanavicius
starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Béjo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefèbvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Saïd Amadis, Claude Brosset

A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert 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 rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East. A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism, ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East.

Awards

  • 2006 Seattle International Film Festival – Audience Award
  • 2006 Tokyo International Film Festival – Grand Prix

Press Reactions

  • This inspired piece of silliness boasts gorgeous period design, deftly tweaks French colonial smugness and, in Jean Dujardin’s self-mocking playfulness as Agent 117, offers a charging comic turn, closer in spirit to Cary Grant than Mike Myers. – Vogue
  • Sparkling production design, a jubilantly retro score and a genuine flair for using the film and TV vocabulary of the ’60s to revisit colonial arrogance put pic in the same conceptual ballpark as Austin Powers or The Naked Gun series. – Variety

Technical Information

Production Year
2006
Country of Production
France
Language
French with English subtitles
Running Time
99
Screen Ratio
2.35:1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Rating
unrated

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies official site

http://oss117movie.com/

Press Notes for OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Download a pdf of the Press Notes

Ad Slick
Download a pdf of the Ad Slick for OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies