The Zurich Film Festival will fete Brazilian actor, director, and producer Wagner Moura with its Golden Eye award for career achievement.
Moura will attend Zurich to receive the award and present his latest film, The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho. He will also host a masterclass.
Moura plays a university professor and technology expert in The Secret Agent, who flees to Recife in 1977 to reconcile with his son during Carnival. But instead of peace, he finds a city gripped by violence, political tensions, and personal threats.
The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Director, the FIPRESCI Prize, and the award for Best Performance By An Actor for Moura, making him the first South American actor ever to win in this category.
“The Secret Agent is one of the most outstanding works of the year – a film with strong Oscar potential,” Zurich Festival Director Christian Jungen said in a statement.
“Wagner Moura carries this story from the first to the last minute with an electrifying presence unlike anything else”. “For his exceptional performance in The Secret Agent and for a career that has made him one of Latin America’s most charismatic and versatile actors, we are honouring Moura with the Golden Eye – and making festival history: For the first time, this award goes to an actor from South America”.
Moura added: “I’m deeply honoured to accept the Golden Eye Award. Thank you to the Zurich Film Festival for recognizing my work in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s truly beautiful and important Brazilian film The Secret Agent. I am humbled to be in the company of those who have received this award, and I’m very proud to share the film with the Zurich festival audience in person this September.”
The film will be released in Swiss cinemas by trigon-film. Zurich runs from September 25 to October 5.
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