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.


Taprobana (2014)
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Luís Vaz de Camões

Jani Zhao
Dinamene

Gabriel Abrantes
Portuguese Authority
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David Lasantha
Opium Dealer
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Jõao Pedro Vale
King Philipp II
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Alexandre Melo
Petrarch
GP
Gonçalo Pena
Homer

Édith Scob
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