
Taprobana
2014•24 min•
★5.7
Comedy
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
Cast & Crew

Natxo Checa
Luís Vaz de Camões

Jani Zhao
Dinamene

Gabriel Abrantes
Portuguese Authority

David Lasantha
Opium Dealer

Jõao Pedro Vale
King Philipp II

Alexandre Melo
Petrarch

Gonçalo Pena
Homer

Édith Scob
L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

Andreia Cabral

Joana Pais de Brito
Nymph III

DirectorGabriel Abrantes
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