O Agente Secreto
2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil–France–Germany–Netherlands
161 minutes, Portuguese with Russian subtitles
Starring: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes
O Agente Secreto
2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil–France–Germany–Netherlands
161 minutes, Portuguese with Russian subtitles
Starring: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes
Blood, sun and tropicalia in a meticulously recreated and ruthless 1970s Brazil.
Recife, Brazil, summer 1977. Forty-year-old Marcelo has recently arrived in the city and already has a daily job at the identity card office. Which is somewhat ironic, as his own identity card bears someone else’s name, his immediate plans involve fleeing the country, and two assassins are after him.
Shot from The Secret Agent, 2025
The Secret Agent testifies, time and again, to the director’s unwavering belief in cinema’s capacity to disquiet and mesmerize.
— Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
Winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards and a four-time Oscar nominee, the film expands on the meaning of its own title: in a country ruled by a military dictatorship and arbitrary will of the authorities, everyone, even those not involved in politics, is forced to feel like an underground activist.
