The pride of French intelligence returns!

Twelve years after Cairo, OSS 117 (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies -SFFF 2008) is back on a new mission at the other end of the world. As he tracks down a microfilm that is compromising for the French government, France’s most famous secret agent will have to team up with the Mossad’s most seductive lieutenant-colonel in order to capture a Nazi blackmailer.

From Rio´s sunny beaches to luxuriant Amazonian forests, from the depths of secret grottos to the top of Corcovado’s Christ, a new adventure is about to begin. Whatever the danger, whatever the stakes, you can always count on Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to find a way out…

The film is based on the popular pulp novels by Jean Bruce. Bruce wrote 91 OSS 117 novels, beginning with Tu parles d'une ingénue (Ici OSS 117) in 1949, predating Ian Flemming’s James Bond 007 by 4 years. After Bruce's death in 1963, his wife Josette started writing the OSS novels in his place. Several films based on Bruce's novels were shot in the 1950's and 1960's.

Michel Hazanavicius talks about his films: “Our OSS 177 is anchored in his era, he is misogynistic, colonialistic, homophobic…he’s a synthesis of sorts! Everything that’s not French, white, male and of his age is inferior to him. Obviously, the whole discourse of the film, if indeed there is one, is to laugh at all of it! (but) OSS 117 is everything excepts mean. His complete good faith gives him a childlike side. This clears him”.

Shown with L'Homme à la Gordini (The Man in the Blue Gordini) by Jean-Christophe Lie