OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

  • Director: Michel Hazanavicius
  • Writer: Jean-François Halin,Jean Bruce,Michel Hazanavicius
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French, Arabic, German
  • Release date: May 9, 2008
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: OSS 117 - Cairo: Nest of Spies
  • "OSS117 Cairo The Bourbon" is an action comedy directed by Michel Azanavicius, featuring Jean Dujardin and François Damian.
    The film tells a story about the adventures of French agents.
    The film shined at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival and eventually won the Golden Unicorn Award for Best Picture.

    Details

    • Release date May 9, 2008
    • Filming locations Port, Casablanca, Morocco
    • Production companies Gaumont, Mandarin Films, M6 Films

    Box office

    Budget

    €14,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $303,543

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $31,418

    Gross worldwide

    $23,055,884

    Movie reviews

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    • By Karley 2022-10-02 22:04:43

      Know everything and know nothing

      People all over the world are tired of having a place. People always feel that they know everything, have a subjective idea about everything and think that they are always right. In their hearts, Paris is everything, even the provinces have nothing to do with them. What happens to this kind of guy in other worlds, the strange thing is that they always succeed.

      Compared with France in Hetalia, who always let others see how beautiful his clothes are, 117 is basically the same, thinking...

    • By Tre 2022-10-02 21:30:10

      A little boring

      A relatively simple funny hero film, to me, the French funny section is very fresh, nothing more. The overall style imitates the movies of the 1960s and 1970s, but there is no need for the plot to procrastinate like that. It starts to get more and more boring to see in the middle. If you have to compare with 007, even if it is an old 007 movie, the heroine is not eye-catching enough, and the male lead is not cool enough. Dala La’s humor and straightforward funnyness are the characteristics, and...

    • By Luigi 2022-10-02 21:27:42

      OSS117 Cairo Spies

      One of the biggest problems with this movie is to be funny for the sake of being funny. The baggage inside is too obvious. It feels like this movie is a piece of sketches pieced together. Each piece looks very interesting. Putting it together, it feels like chewing wax. This seems to be a characteristic of French comedy films. For example, police and female soldiers have similar routines, but the themes are relatively concentrated and they are quite interesting. But the history...

    • By Stephania 2022-10-02 18:33:05

      [Film Review] OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) 6.3/10

      The first outing of THE ARTIST trio, French director Michel Hazanavicius' second feature film, an 007 spoof based on the popular novel series penned by Jean Bruce, its protagonist is the French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath codename OSS 117 (Dujardin), who is narrow-minded, feather-headed and a hardened skirt-chaser, but has a slick head of hair and optimal luck to land on his feet among...

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    • By Darrion 2023-09-24 21:56:26

      It's really politically incorrect, the white suzerain is condescending, the male stare, cheap Hollywood heroism, the smell of hard hairspray from the 1960s, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha it's like an old 60s movie It is vivid, not only ran on the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Egypt, Iran, but also ran on France itself, as old as the old, refreshing...

    • By Madonna 2023-09-02 10:54:54

      The artist has a little bit of goodwill, but after watching this film, there is...

    • By Juliana 2023-08-06 09:38:03

      The artist's leftover fans are incidental products. Hazanavicius, Dujardin, Bejo are the legendary Iron Triangle... Du Yadan is really the same Gable + Kelly smirk for thousands of...

    • By Imelda 2023-07-22 20:06:00

      Head out laughing. Some puns in French are really difficult to translate....

    • By Jermain 2023-07-06 06:10:06

      Five stars to Jean...

    Movie plot

    In 1955, Cairo, the capital of The Arab Republic of Egypt . The descendants of the lonely pharaoh family want to regain their throne, and the secret religious organization K wants to manipulate the government. The President of France also sent his own spy 117 to wander around the water. There are endless ridiculous things.
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has James Bond 007, and France has an agent 117. And this...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    ·When the film was shot in The Kingdom of Morocco Casablanca, Habuse, a tourist attraction, was chosen, where there are many shops and residential buildings on both sides of the street. The shop will be closed on the day of the shooting, and the shopkeepers can get a certain amount of compensation. There is a shop with very obvious characteristics of the door, but the owner would rather stand at the door instead of leaving. He wanted...
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    About the film

    The film shined at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival and eventually won the Golden Unicorn Award for Best Picture. It was a big hit at the time. "OSS117 Cairo Bourbon" is considered to be one of the most entertaining films in this festival. This French comedy mainly tells the story of a French spy in the 1950s.
    It was 1955. In the first black and white overture, he regained some important documents from the Nazi Party ten years...
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    About the choreographer

    The film is adapted from a serious French detective novel, and such a serious work has been adapted into a comedy that is enough to make everyone laugh and laugh. This shows the skill of the director. In OSS-117, all the laughter came very suddenly and extremely violently. When the audience is in the cinema, they have not had time to appreciate it. It is usually a laugh that makes people laugh wildly, and almost miss the next funny...
    more about OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies About the choreographer

    About the actors

    The film starring Jean Dujardin, after taking the OSS-117 film, he quickly became popular and has become a rising star in France. The other leading actor is Bérénice Bejo. The film leads us into the world of French super spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (also known as detective OSS-117). Hubert took the evil star route, such as Maxwell Smart in 1970, Inspector Gadget and Austin Powers in 1983. They always because of themselves The...
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    Movie quotes

    • Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: [Upon learning Larmina works for the resistance movement] Larmina? Exposed as the rat you are. How could you betray me? Why did I trust you? Women are never to be trusted! To think I almost let you make love to me! What a fine mess!

      Larmina El Akmar Betouche: Make love to you? You silenced a muezzin just so you could sleep! I'd rather screw a pig on a holy Friday! You judge my country and religion with condescension.

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: I can't believe it. Your cigarettes, your mambo, your tits mixed up with these fanatics!

    • Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: You're not like those men.

      Larmina El Akmar Betouche: I am! I fight to be respected.

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: Too bad they're not like you. If their bodies were as shapely as yours, I'd switch teams...

      Larmina El Akmar Betouche: Don't you ever talk about my body!

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: [Starts untying himself while talking to Larmina] ... If they had such round breasts, such captivating cleavage, nipples that perked up at the slightest emotion or breeze. Nipples that you want to nibble... so pink, so healthy, swelling with life...

      Larmina El Akmar Betouche: You're a fool!

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: [Has untied himself] Yes, but I'm free!

    • Moeller: [to Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath "OSS 117", alias Mr. Bramard] I would love to show you the Pyramids, Mr. Bramard.

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: I would love you as a guide. The mystery of the pyramids is that of unattainable conscience.

      Setine: Pharaohs were buried with their servants.

      Moeller: When we die, we want everything to stop.

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: It is the cycle of life itself. When someone or something dies, someone or something is born.

      Setine: We try to forget we're animals, but nature keeps reminding us. Sometimes cruelly.

      Moeller: Scientists experiment on fruit flies because their brains are very similar to ours.

      Setine: Through a horse's eye we seem bigger than we are. That's why we're able to tame them.

      Moeller: Our eyes teach us how to react to others. But we can be near-sighted.

      Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117: The blind man doesn't see. He feels. And paradoxically, he sees.

      Moeller: When a cats tail is straight, it feels at ease.

      Setine: An amputee's leg still itches.

      Setine: When women change men, they change hairstyles.

      Moeller: You must let a baby cry at night, or bedtime becomes too ritualized.

      Raymond Pelletier: You... want a drink? We can go to the bar. A little nightcap?