THE SECRET AGENT

A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Cast : Wagner MOURA, Maria Fernanda CANDIDO, Gabriel LEONE

drama. thriller / Brazil, France / status : in post-production / Portuguese / long feature-film / International collections

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. 

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.

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