Product Details

• Actors: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, Philippe Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov
• Directors: Michel Hazanavicius
• Format: Import, NTSC
• Language: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Christal
• DVD Release Date: December 5, 2006
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ION52I
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,725 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterically funny! , November 26, 2006

By	Zagora (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

I saw this film in Paris back in April. It had no subtitles, and my grasp of French is not great, but since the comedy is mostly physical, it had me rolling in the aisles. WARNING: There were some actions I thought might offend Moslems, but they are perpetrated by someone who is meant to be a jerk, so the joke is not at Moslems' expense. I've been waiting for this film to come out on DVD - I can't wait to own it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FRENCH PARODY OF SPY THRILLERS OF THE 60'S, May 28, 2007

By	wdanthemanw "wdanthemanw" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

OSS 117: LE CAIRE NID D'ESPIONS (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) earned the 2007 César (French Oscar) in the Best Production design category. The film is based on the original characters of writer Jean Bruce. Back in the sixties, after the international success of the James Bond movies, French producers decided to produce a certain numbers of films based on such popular heroes as OSS 117 or Le Tigre, aka The Tiger. Claude Chabrol, for instance, directed two Le Tigre movies in 1964 and 1965.

Now, if you haven't seen one of these movies, I really don't know whether you'll like this parody. To make short, if you appreciated Mel Brooks's Silent Movie or the Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition) serie, you could like OSS 117, LE CAIRE NID D'ESPIONS whose gags are as much verbal than visual. I personally liked a lot this film.

A DVD zone it's French but it's not boring.

4.0 out of 5 stars The best spoof I've seen on years!,, April 20, 2009

By	Ignacio Litardo "inquisitive book worm" (Capital, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

OSS 117 was fun from start to finish.

It's difficult to define why one film touches or connects with you or not, and I won't try to analyze such perfect comedy, so politically incorrect that even academic papers should be dedicated to it :)!

Everything is old fashioned here, from women's clothes (sigh!), Mambo dance, the "hero singing"... ("Bambino" sounds like an Italian canzonetta sung in... arabic :)!).

Hubert is physically imposing, but dumb as hell. From all the 007s, he looks like Sean Connery, but is definitely more sympa because he's... silly, speaks his mind all the time, giggles, even has some homoerotic fantasies and there are rumours about him. In short, as an anti hero, he rocks :)! Sometimes he only raises his eyebrows or frowns, and that's all it takes to make you laugh.

Bérénice Bejo is the true queen of the film. Graceful, treacherous but with ideals. Aure Atika, to the contrary, is reduced to a femme fatale of sorts. It's surprising to see her that "sexy bomb", thou.

You just can't compare it with "Austin Powers"! I agree with Amazon's D. Hartley (Seattle, WA) on it being respectful to the genre.

Which is your favourite scene? One of my favourite scenes is the "fight of the chickens" with the masked villain. But the truly perfect one is when chatting at the cocktail with his contacts, how they all mutter platitudes with confidence... This scene alone makes the comedy genre worthwhile.