We see a Brazilian man in his 40s with a beard wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt, leaning on a wall and standing outdoors in what looks like a rural or agricultural setting. There's a yellow vintage car beside him, and sugarcane fields are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

The Secret Agent

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About The Secret Agent

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho delivers one of the year’s greatest films with The Secret Agent, a sly, genre-bending political thriller starring Wagner Moura in a brilliant performance as Marcelo, a technology researcher on the lam in 1977 during Brazil’s notorious military dictatorship.

The film begins with Marcelo headed to the northern city of Recife seeking asylum and to be closer to his young son. Arriving during the raucous celebrations of Carnival, Marcelo is welcomed by a colourful community of political refugees, yet an insidious atmosphere of surveillance, paranoia, and danger encircles him. Mendonça Filho spotlights corruption everywhere, from the sleazy local police chief and his ruthless deputies to the director of the state identification archives where Marcelo is simultaneously working, hiding, and searching for his mother’s official ID card.
 

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