Au Service de la France
1De Gaulle is President and Algeria is a officially a part of France. Here is a typical scene mocking algerie francaise:
Two Frenchmen in suits sitting in a outdoor cafe look out on an Algiers street where they see men dressed in djeballas, street vendors crying out in Arabic, camels, and hear Arab women ululating in the distance. One turns to the other and says
‘France is so beautiful.’
In the second season there is a putsch in Algeria and the spies perform an ad hoc mission to recover the Green Jerboa atomic bomb that was about to be tested in the desert. They load it onto the roof of a Citroen 2-CV and take off into the desert, a ridiculous sight meant to mock little France’s grand nuclear ambitions.
Here is a funny scene of mutual cultural incomprehension as puritanical American CIA agents try to explain to perplexed Frenchmen why having mistresses and sleeping around is a bad thing...
This may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I encourage you to check it out if you like foreign light comedy with a message.
Based on an actual French Cold War era intelligence agency: Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage
On Netflix, where it was given the lame American title “A Very Secret Service”. Subtitled.