OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Set in 1955, renowned French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, also known as OSS 117, is dispatched to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to become entangled in a sprawling web of international intrigue.
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Michel Hazanavicius
Noureddine Aberdine
Luc Bricault
Rachid Doha
Matthew Gledhill
Mustapha Grumij
Delphine Heude
Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux
Sade Zeriffi
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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 Nazis 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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The directors of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies are Michel Hazanavicius, Noureddine Aberdine, Luc Bricault, Rachid Doha, Matthew Gledhill, Mustapha Grumij, Delphine Heude, Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux, and Sade Zeriffi.
The cast of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies includes Richard Sammel as Moeller, Laurent Bateau as Gardenborough, François Damiens as Raymond Pelletier, Saïd Amadis as Le ministre égyptien, Abdellah Moundy as Slimane, Claude Brosset as Le patron, Jean Dujardin as Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117, Aure Atika as La princesse Al Tarouk, Arsène Mosca as Loktar, Eric Prat as Plantieux, Bérénice Bejo as Larmina El Akmar Betouche, Philippe Lefebvre as Jack Jefferson, and more.
The duration of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is 1h 39 mins.
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies was released on 19 Apr 2006.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is listed under Crime, Action, Adventure, and Comedy on Fanbiz.
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 9.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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 a..."
