Taprobana (2014)

5.7/10 • 24 min • Comedy

Overview

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

Jani Zhao

Gabriel Abrantes

Portuguese Authority

Édith Scob

L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

Joana Pais de Brito

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