OSS 117: Lost in Rio
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| Directed by | Michel Hazanavicius |
| Produced by |
Éric Altmayer Nicolas Altmeyer |
| Written by | Jean-François Halin Michel Hazanavicius |
| Based on |
OSS 117 character by Jean Bruce |
| Starring |
Jean Dujardin Louise Monot |
| Music by | Ludovic Bource |
| Cinematography | Guillaume Schiffman |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
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101 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $23.4 million |
| Box office | $39.6 million |
OSS 117: Lost in Rio released in France as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (stylized as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus...), is a 2009 French spy comedy film directed and co-written by Michel Hazanavicius. It is a sequel to Hazanavicius' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and see Jean Dujardin reprising his role as French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath / OSS 117. Set in 1967, Lost in Rio sees OSS 117 sent to Brazil in order to retrieve a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers, only to once again unknowingly set foot into a bigger international intrigue.
Like the first film, Lost in Rio is based on the OSS 117 character from the novels by Jean Bruce, but acts as a parody rather than a faithful adaptation. The original title literally translates to "OSS 117: Rio doesn't respond anymore", a reference to the 1932 film F.P.1 Doesn't Respond.
The film opens with a ski chalet party sequence in Gstaad where Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath aka OSS 117 is entertaining a Chinese countess. The party is attacked by Red Chinese gunmen working for a Mr. Lee and everyone but Hubert and the Countess are killed, with Hubert comically killing some of his own guests by accident. Returning to SDECE headquarters, Hubert is assigned to deliver a blackmail payment of 50,000 new Francs to Professor Von Zimmel, a Nazi who escaped to South America and has a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers.
Once in Rio, Hubert is attacked at various times by relatives of Mr. Lee's gunmen, encounters a foul-mouthed American Felix Leiter-type CIA agent Bill Tremendous, the femme fatale Carlotta, Professor Von Zimmel's luchador enforcers and eventually Mossad agents intent on bringing Professor Von Zimmel back to Israel for trial. OSS 117 teams up with Dolorès Koulechov, a beautiful Israeli Army Colonel to bring Von Zimmel to Israel in the manner of Adolf Eichmann. Their lead to Von Zimmel is his son who is now a hippie.
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