OSS 117 Le Caire nid d'espions
(France, 2006, 98 minutes)
French superspy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, is assigned to discover who killed a French agent in mid-fifties Cairo. A popular French pulp fiction hero of the 1950s and 1960s that got its own film series at the time is reinvented as a spot-on, straight-faced spoof of early sixties spy thrillers and particularly of early Bond films, making good fun of the genre’s outdated trappings.
A Gaumont release of a Mandarin Films presentation. Gaumont presents a Gaumont/Mandarin Films/M6 production, with the participation of Canal Plus, Cinécinéma, Artemis and M6. Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius; produced by Éric and Nicolas Altmeyer; screenplay by Jean-François Halin, based on the character created by Jean Bruce; adaptation and dialogues, Jean-François Halin, Michel Hazanavicius; music by Ludovic Bource and Kamel Ech-Cheikh; director of photography, Guillaume Schiffman; production designer, Maamar Ech-Cheikh; costume designer, Charlotte David; film editor, Reynald Bertrand; visual effects supervisors, David Danet and Philippe Aubry.
French superspy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, is assigned to discover who killed a French agent in mid-fifties Cairo. A popular French pulp fiction hero of the 1950s and 1960s that got its own film series at the time is reinvented as a spot-on, straight-faced spoof of early sixties spy thrillers and particularly of early Bond films, making good fun of the genre’s outdated trappings.
A Gaumont release of a Mandarin Films presentation. Gaumont presents a Gaumont/Mandarin Films/M6 production, with the participation of Canal Plus, Cinécinéma, Artemis and M6. Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius; produced by Éric and Nicolas Altmeyer; screenplay by Jean-François Halin, based on the character created by Jean Bruce; adaptation and dialogues, Jean-François Halin, Michel Hazanavicius; music by Ludovic Bource and Kamel Ech-Cheikh; director of photography, Guillaume Schiffman; production designer, Maamar Ech-Cheikh; costume designer, Charlotte David; film editor, Reynald Bertrand; visual effects supervisors, David Danet and Philippe Aubry.
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