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Taprobana (2014)
Directed by Gabriel Abrantes
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.
Length 24 minutes
Actors
Natxo Checa | Jani Zhao | Gabriel Abrantes | David Lasantha | Jõao Pedro Vale | Alexandre Melo | Gonçalo Pena | Edith Scob | Andreia Cabral | Joana Pais de Brito