Showtimes: Saturday, October 6 at 4:40pm
and Tuesday, October 9 at 6:05pm

Awards: César Awards - Best Production Design, Tokyo International
Film Festival -Tokyo Grand Prix, Étoile d'Or - Best Actor

Not surprisingly this film is a box-office sensation in France. Special Agent OSS 117 pops up in Cairo, circa 1955, to monitor the Suez Canal, check up on the Brits and Soviets, burnish France's reputation, quell a fundamentalist rebellion and broker peace in the Middle East. You should think James Bond crossed with Austin Powers, with a little bit of The Naked Gun antics thrown in for good measure. Cairo is a total spy ring. Everyone is suspicious of everyone else, everyone is plotting against everyone else: English, French, Soviets, the family of deposed King Farouk, who wants to reclaim the throne, and the Kheops Eagles, a religious sect that wants to take power. René Coty, the President of the French Republic, sends his master weapon to establish law and order in this bedlam on the edge of chaos. "No problem," replies Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath. It’s men like Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (alias OSS 117) who have made France the world power that it is today. Jean Bruce created this Gallic James Bond in 1949 in a pulp fiction series that finally ran to 265 novels and spawned seven film versions between 1956 and 1970. Now 117’s back in a delicious parody, suavely outwitting Nazis before enjoying a bracing and manly game of beach tennis with his very good friend and fellow agent, Jack. Then on to the Middle East where, under the cover of running a poultry factory, he will be plunged into a dastardly intrigue involving the Russians, the Brits and assorted Islamic fundamentalists. He will need all of the cultural sensitivity and deference to other ways of life for which the French are famed if he is to unravel the caper and return the region to a place where Europeans can feel safe to wear a tuxedo and cut a nifty samba.

On a superficial level these clichés are the clichés of fifties movies, and at a deeper level, they are the clichés of the controlling western philosophy.
~ Michel Hazanavicius

Principal Cast: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Aure Atika,
Philippe Lefebvre, Constantin Alexandrov, Said Amadis

Producer: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman
Editor: Reynald Bertrand
Music: Ludovic Bource, Kamel Ech-Cheikh