Taprobana (2014)

Taprobana (2014)

2014-06-11 Denmark, Portugal, Sri Lanka 24 Min. PG-13
6.1 8 votes

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

Natxo Checa is Luís Vaz de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões
Jani Zhao is Dinamene
Dinamene
Gabriel Abrantes is Portuguese Authority
Portuguese Authority
David Lasantha is Opium Dealer
Opium Dealer
Jõao Pedro Vale is King Philipp II
King Philipp II
Alexandre Melo is Petrarch
Édith Scob is L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan