Taprobana (2014)
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.
- Released
- 2014-06-11
- Genres
- Comedy
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gabriel Abrantes, David Lasantha, Vimukthi Jayasundara
- TMDB rating
- 5.7/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Natxo Checa as Luís Vaz de Camões
- Jani Zhao as Dinamene
- Gabriel Abrantes as Portuguese Authority
- David Lasantha as Opium Dealer
- Jõao Pedro Vale as King Philipp II
- Alexandre Melo as Petrarch
- Gonçalo Pena as Homer
- Édith Scob as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
- Andreia Cabral
- Joana Pais de Brito as Nymph III
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