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Plot summary
In 1967, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, known by the code name OSS 117, is a French secret agent whose superiors consider him their best man. At a ski chalet party in Gstaad, gunmen working for a Mr. Lee attack the guests, and Hubert returns to headquarters. There he receives an assignment: travel to Brazil and hand a blackmail payment to Professor Von Zimmel, a Nazi who fled to South America after the war and keeps a microfilm list of French Nazi sympathizers. In Rio de Janeiro, Hubert meets Dolorès Koulechov, an Israeli Army colonel also hunting Von Zimmel, and Carlotta, a woman who takes an interest in him. The search carries him across Brazil, to Brasilia and the Iguazu Falls.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When casting the sequel, director Michel Hazanavicius suggested Jacques Chirac for the part of Armand Lesignac, but Chirac rejected it.
- The only character to return from Cairo, Nest of Spies was Lesignac, OSS 117's superior: Claude Brosset played him in the first film, and Pierre Bellemare took over the part after Brosset died.
- The 1960s look is deliberate: driving scenes are all filmed with obvious rear projection, and the camera work stays simple, avoiding the Steadicam and crane movements that are easy today.
- The film revives the multi-dynamic image technique of several panes with partial and full repetition of images, popularised by Steve McQueen's 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, in key sequences including Dolorès Koulechov's introduction.
