Irish Film Institute -THE SECRET AGENT

THE SECRET AGENT

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho

161 mins, Brazil-France-Netherlands-Germany, 2025, Digital, Subtitled

(O AGENTO SECRETO)

SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 20TH. PREVIEWS FROM FEBRUARY 13TH.

Brazil, 1977. On the run, Marcelo (Wagner Moura) returns to his hometown of Recife where he is welcomed into a covert community of refugees presided over by aging matriarch Dona Sebastiana. He takes a job in an Identification Records Office, partly as cover and partly to seek out a record of his mother’s life, yet soon becomes entangled in a web of espionage, conspiracy and murder involving the corrupt local police chief who knows more about Marcello’s past than he lets on.

Notes by David O’Mahony

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