The Oscar cinema (Gulliver shopping center) in Kyiv hosted a pre-premiere screening of the crime thriller Secret Agent by Oscar-nominated director Kleber Mendonça Filho. According to the organizers, the film will be released in Ukrainian cinemas on March 12.
Among the guests at the screening were representatives of the Brazilian Embassy in Ukraine, which supported the pre-premiere presentation of the film.
“The Secret Agent” has already received four awards at the Cannes Film Festival, two Golden Globe awards, and four Oscar nominations, according to the organizers.
The film is set in Brazil in the 1970s. The main character, scientist Marcelo, is forced to flee from the dictatorship. Escaping from hired killers, he finds himself in an atmosphere of carnival, police violence, and the activities of a mysterious resistance movement.
The film is being distributed in Ukraine with the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe MEDIA program.
