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MUBI Podcast | “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Wagner Moura on Memory and Manguebeat

A special conversation with the director and star of the multiple Oscar-nominated drama set in ’70s Brazil.
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The Secret Agent is now showing in cinemas in the UK, Ireland and Latin America. 

The Best Picture–nominated thriller The Secret Agent (2025) tells a tale of intrigue and absurdity in ’70s Brazil. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Pictures of Ghosts, 2023) and star Wagner Moura (Civil War, 2024) give Rico a primer on the real politics behind the film’s surreal moments and the “manguebeat” music that rocked their world.

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