The Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho wanted to explore his childhood memories of life under the military dictatorship and how that era resonates in the present in his film “The secret agent”, at the competition at the Cannes Festival.
“The film begins by saying ‘Our story takes place in 1977, a time full of problems’, as if something were different today,” the 56 -year -old director told Reuters.
It is “ironic and interesting” that some of the ideas that were left behind during the almost 50 years between then and now become the dominant current, he added.
The military ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985 after a coup d’etat, during which thousands of people were arrested and tortured, and hundreds disappeared, being many exiles and persecuted.
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“The secret agent”, which is the third time that Mendonca Filho competes for the Golden Palm of the Festival, after the bloody success of “Bolurau” and “Aquarius”, celebrated its premiere on Sunday.
The Brazilian cinematographic community is still on the crest of the wave after “I am still here”, which tells the real story of a mother of five children whose husband disappears during the same period, this year took the first Oscar in the country in an important category.
Wagner Moura, who played Pablo Escobar in the successful television series “Narcos”, plays Marcelo, a mysterious technology specialist who flees to the coastal city of Recife to go unnoticed during the Carnival season.
However, it ends up being persecuted by hitmen. Moura told Reuters that he had never been as happy as working on the film with Mendonca Filho.
“I was working with Kleber, I was in Brazil, I was doing a political thriller, so everything seemed perfect,” he said.
With Reuters information
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