OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies on Gulli, Jean Dujardin as a swaggering, overconfident agent

Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath is back in Cairo on Gulli. The channel will air OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Monday, November 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM. In this Michel Hazanavicius comedy, Michel Hazanavicius, Jean Dujardin adopts the hero’s name created by Jean Bruce to mold an agent whose confidence clashes with his blunders.

The action unfolds in Egypt in 1955. Sent by President René Coty to a city where rival networks clash, OSS 117 sets out to restore order amid spies and schemes. Bérénice Bejo plays Larmina and Aure Atika portrays Princess Al Tarouk, two confidantes of this agent convinced he can handle the situation.

Released in France on April 19, 2006, the film reimagines a character from spy novels within a spoof–comedy frame. The screenplay by Jean-François Halin and the dialogue he crafts with Hazanavicius twist the confident, heroic archetype and disrupt the clichés of spy cinema. This debut feature with Dujardin set the stage for OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus, Hazanavicius’s 2009 follow-up.

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Gulli is also lining up a replay of Cairo, Nest of Spies on Monday, November 9 at 11:00 p.m., right after Rio, Not Responding, which had been scheduled for 9:05 p.m.

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