Taprobana

Jun 11, 2014

0h 24m

★ 5.7

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

DOX:LAB

A Mutual Respect Productions

Taprobana Trailers

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Cast

Luís Vaz de Camões

Natxo Checa

Dinamene

Jani Zhao

Portuguese Authority

Gabriel Abrantes

Opium Dealer

David Lasantha

King Philipp II

Jõao Pedro Vale

Petrarch

Alexandre Melo

Homer

Gonçalo Pena

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Édith Scob

Andreia Cabral

Nymph III

Joana Pais de Brito

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