Hong Kong French Film Festival
29 Nov ~ 10 Dec 2006
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
OSS 117 之開羅諜影
Theatre, HK City Hall
Lecture Hall, HK Space Museum
 OSS
117, Le Caire nid d'espions |
Egypt, 1955: 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: Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, known as OSS 117. Author Jean Bruce's character OSS 117 first saw print in 1949, four years before Bond, and eventually figured in 265 novels. The French secret agent appeared in seven movies between 1956 and 1970, incarnated by a variety of actors including Ivan Desny, Kerwin Mathews and Frederick Stafford. Jean Dujardin plays title character OSS 117 as a kind of James Bond crossed with Maxwell Smart. Sparkling production design, a jubilantly retro score and a genuine flair for using the film and TV vocabulary of the '60s to revisit colonial arrogance put the film in the same conceptual ballpark as Austin Powers or “The Naked Gun” series.
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一九九五年的開羅是間諜活動的中心。英國人、法國人、蘇聯人、每個人都可能是間諜，人人互相猜忌，各出奇謀。被廢的埃及國王法魯克一世的家人希望重奪帝位，還有一個想奪政權的邪教團體。為了維護秩序與和平，法國總統派遣他的秘密武器，他手下最利害的特務 OSS117 前往開羅。 小說作家 Jean Bruce 以特務 OSS117 這個人物出版的小說於 1949 年首次出版，較占士邦系列更早四年問世，這小說系列共出版了二百六十五集。 而自 1956 年至 1970 年間，法國共製作了七部特務片。尚．杜札丹飾演的 OSS117 可說是占士邦和電視片集中的情報員史麥特的混合體。 |
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2006 / Color 彩色 / 99 mins Action Comedy / Parody Director 導演 ： Cast 演員 ：
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