The Secret Agent
In competition – Best Actor, Best Director, Fipresci Award, Cannes 2025
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles: Romanian, English
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Country: Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands
Year of production: 2025
Length: 158 minutes
Genre: Thriller, Period Drama
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 – Director
Kleber Mendonça Filho – Script
Evgenia Alexandrova – Cinematography
Eduardo Serrano, Matheus Farias – Editing
Tjin Hazen, Moabe Filho, Pedrinho Moreira, Cyril Holtz – Sound
Wagner Moura
Maria Fernanda Candido
Gabriel Leone
Carlos Francisco
Alice Carvalho
Robério Diogenes
Hermila Guedes
Igor Araújo Falcão
Martins Italo
Laura Lufési
Udo Kier
Roney Villela
Kaiony Venâncio
