Taprobana (S)
2014·Portugal·24 min.
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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.
DirectorGabriel Abrantes
CastGabriel Abrantes·Natxo Checa·David Lasantha·Betty Meixue·Alexandre Melo·Gonçalo Pena·André Principe·Wilson Teixeira·João Pedro Vale·Jani Zhao
Original titleTaprobana (S)