Taprobana

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Gabriel Abrantes

Writers

David Lasantha, Gabriel Abrantes, Vimukthi Jayasundara

Language

Portuguese

Country

Denmark, Sri Lanka, Portugal

Release date

11 June 2014

Ensemble

Cast

• Natxo Checa

  Luís Vaz de Camões

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  Jani Zhao

  Dinamene

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  Gabriel Abrantes

  Portuguese Authority

• David Lasantha

  Opium Dealer

• Jõao Pedro Vale

  King Philipp II

• Alexandre Melo

  Petrarch

• Gonçalo Pena

  Homer

• 

  Édith Scob

  L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

• Andreia Cabral

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  Joana Pais de Brito

  Nymph III