Taprobana

2014

24 min

6.1

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Comedy

Director

Gabriel Abrantes

Country

Denmark

Cast & Crew

Natxo Checa

Jani Zhao

Gabriel Abrantes

David Lasantha

Jõao Pedro Vale

Alexandre Melo

Gonçalo Pena

Édith Scob

Andreia Cabral

Joana Pais de Brito

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Taprobana

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.

  • Natxo Checa

  • Jani Zhao

  • Gabriel Abrantes

  • David Lasantha

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