Taprobana (2014)
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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.
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Natxo ChecaLuís Vaz de Camões
Jani ZhaoDinamene
Gabriel AbrantesPortuguese AuthorityDavid LasanthaOpium DealerJõao Pedro ValeKing Philipp IIAlexandre MeloPetrarchGonçalo PenaHomer
Édith ScobL'Ambassadrice de France en AfghanistanAndreia Cabral
Joana Pais de BritoNymph IIIKeywords
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What is Taprobana about?
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.
How long is Taprobana?
Taprobana has a runtime of 24 minutes.