If you think Austin Powers should receive a 9mm retirement, then Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath — aka agent OSS 117 — is your guy. Closer to Maxwell Smart or Inspector Clouseau than Powers, the ...

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Aure Atika, ... an incensed OSS storms from his hotel room and tells the muezzin offering the morning call to prayers to shut up.

Spoofing both the Cold War mindset and the spy movies it spawned, the French film OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a cinematic bonbon with a crunchy nut at its center. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath ...

OSS 117: CAIRO, NEXT OF SPIES. ... Awakened at five one morning by a muezzin’s call to prayer, Hubert thinks it’s an early, rowdy partygoer and marches up the minaret to silence him.

Finally, OSS 117 single-handedly incites an Islamic uprising by beating up the rude stranger who wakes him by yelling from a nearby tower (i.e., the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer).

Closer in spirit to the deadpan stylings of early Zucker brothers than the more obvious slap-shtick of the Austin Powers franchise, director and co-writer Michel Hazanavicius’s OSS 117: Cairo ...