A box-office sensation in France comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath aka OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death monitors the Suez Canal checks up on the Brits and Soviets burnishes France's reputation quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East.... A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A box-office sensation in France comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath aka OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack s death monitors the Suez Canal checks up on the Brits and Soviets burnishes France&39;s reputation quells a fundamentalist rebellion and brokers peace in the Middle East A blithe and witty send-up not only of spy films of that era and the suave secret agent figure but also neo-colonialism ethnocentrism and the very idea of Western covert action in the Middle East
French spy film parody, sending up the OSS 117 series of spy films made in the 1950s and 1960s, which were in turn based on a series of novels by Jean Bruce. The film follows the exploits of French secret agent OSS 117 (played by French comedian Jean Dujardin) in 1950s Egypt. The mysterious disappearance of OSS agent Jack Jefferson (Philippe Lefebvre) coincides with that of a Russian cargo ship from the Port of Cairo. Agent OSS 117, who has a shared past with Jefferson, is sent in to investigate. He soon finds himself caught in an international web of intrigue - but still manages to time for a romantic dalliance with Egyptian princess Al Tarouk (Aure Atika).
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