Taprobana

Taprobana — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 11, 2014
• Runtime
• 24 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Gabriel Abrantes

Taprobana — Cast

N

Natxo Checa Luís Vaz de Camões Jani Zhao Dinamene Gabriel Abrantes Portuguese Authority

D

David Lasantha Opium Dealer

J

Jõao Pedro Vale King Philipp II

A

Alexandre Melo Petrarch

G

Gonçalo Pena Homer Édith Scob L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan