Secret Agent — advance preview screening

'Secret Agent' is one of the most electrifying titles of recent years. Nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winner of two Golden Globes and two prizes in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Kleber Mendonçy Filho's film ('Aquarius', 'Bacurau'), counted among the leading outstanding directors of contemporary world cinema, evokes the spirit of classic gangster cinema. At the same time it boldly combines domestic threads with epic scope, humor with sex appeal, nostalgia with horror.

Mendonçy Filho's film is set in 1970s Brazil during Carnival. The sun‑baked city of Recife is on the verge of madness: people die during the dancing celebration, a shark with a human leg in its stomach is found on a beach, and two killers with a secret mission wander among the crowds. Colors and joy are only appearances — these are the times of a brutal military dictatorship. Marcelo, the protagonist of 'Secret Agent', is a man accidentally entangled in a web of political and criminal intrigues reaching the highest seats of power. He was honest, so he became a target of a corrupt system, and now every next step can cost him his life. How to save yourself and your family in a world of brutal violence, false identities, wiretaps and lies?

For the role of the last righteous man in a country rotten to the core, Wagner Moura won the Golden Globe and a prize in Cannes and stands a chance for his first career Oscar. Known from the series 'Narcos', 'Elite' and 'Civil War', the actor moves through a labyrinth of dirty secrets with the ease and grace of old Hollywood stars. 'Secret Agent' is a tribute to the cinema of Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, to which it refers in scale and spirit. Mendonça Filho, however, refreshes and reinterprets the gangster‑spy cinema, going beyond clichés and genre boundaries. Spectacular, gripping and incisive, it reveals a piece of truth not only about the past but also about our times.

Cast:

• Wagner Moura
• Maria Fernanda Cândido
• Gabriel Leone

Production details:

• Country of production: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Brazil
• Year of production: 2025
• Original language: Portuguese
• Genre: drama, thriller
• Running time: 161 min