THE SECRET AGENT / MARIGHELLA (Q&A with actor Wagner Moura, actors Gabriel Leone and Alice Carvalho and casting director Gabriel Domingues. Moderated by Rochelle Rose)
THE SECRET AGENT, 2025, Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 158 Mins, NEON, Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
THE SECRET AGENT is a 2025 Brazilian historical political thriller film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a teacher caught in the political turmoil of the final years of the Brazilian military dictatorship, attempting to flee persecution.
FORMAT: DCP
MARIGHELLA, 2019, Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 155 Mins, ArtMattan Productions, Brazil
In Portuguese with English subtitles.
MARIGHELLA is a Brazilian action drama set in 1969 based on the life of Afro-Brazilian politician and guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella. Facing a violent military dictatorship and with little support from a timid opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella organizes a resistance movement. Alongside revolutionaries 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action.
