The Secret Agent

Brazil

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Year2025

FormatFilm · feature

Techniquestop-motion (sequence)

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Brazilian political thriller directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, set during Brazil's 1977 military dictatorship; nominated for 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Best International Feature, Best Actor for Wagner Moura, Best Casting). Includes a stop-motion animated sequence depicting the 'hairy leg' (perna cabeluda) urban legend, code for the military police in 1970s Recife; the sequence was created by Dutch stop-motion studio Holy Motion.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho	director; writer	direction
	stop-motion animation ("hairy leg" sequence)	animation

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