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The Secret Agent

by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 2025
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Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non violent refuge he seeks. Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau – Cannes Jury Prize, Aquarius – Cannes Competition) brings us a gripping political thriller set in the late seventies during the final years of Brazil’s military regime starring Narcos’ Wagner Moura.

Festivals & awards

Cannes 2025: Prix de la mise en scène & Prix d'interprétation masculine
Sydney Film Festival 2025

Dictatorship Family Film Cinema Solidarity

Credits

Original Title
The Secret Agent
Title
The Secret Agent
Directed by
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Country
Brazil
Year
2025
Screenplay
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Film Editing
Eduardo Serrano, Matheus Farias
Soundtrack
Tomaz Alves Souza, Mateus Alves
Cinematography
Evgenia Alexandrova
Sound
Tjin Hazen, Moabe Filho, Pedrinho Moreira, Cyril Holtz
Costumes
Rita Azevedo
Production Design
Thales Junqueira
Production
Emilie Lesclaux
Runtime
158 min.
Cast
Wagner Moura (Marcelo), Maria Fernanda Candido (Elza), Gabriel Leone (Bobby), Carlos Francisco (Alexandre), Alice Carvalho (Fatima), Roberio Diogenes (Euclides), Hermila Guedes (Claudia), Igor de Araujo (Sergio), Italo Martins (Arlindo), Laura Lufesi (Flavia), Udo Kier (Hans), Roney Villela (Augusto), Isabél Zuaa

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Press voices

«The movie luxuriates in an inebriating sense of time and place that speaks of Mendonça Filho’s intense love for the setting... One of the best films of the year.» The Hollywood Reporter

«That striking foresight to speak to the here and now via a character study mostly unfolding half a century ago is what makes The Secret Agent a formidable achievement.» The Playlist

«A cinematically dazzling period drama.» Variety

«Filho exhumes the past as the basis for a purely fictional story, and in doing so articulates how fiction can be even more valuable as a vehicle for truth than it is as a tool for covering it up.» IndieWire