Following its award-winning premiere at Cannes ealier this year, Neon has now released a trailer for the 1970s set Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent.
Written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, the film stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a widower on the run from mercenaries in Recife, Brazil and relying on the help of an underground resistance to stay alive, after he finds himself a target in the dictatorship’s political maelstrom. Watch the trailer below…
Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past and from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977. In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son. Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho teams up with renowned actor Wagner Moura – giving an extraordinary, career-defining performance – to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history even as it feels remarkably contemporary, paying affectionate tribute to the movies of Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger.
The Secret Agent arrives in cinemas on November 26th.
