Taprobana

Taprobana

2014
24m
5.7

5.7/10

9 votes • View on IMDb
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.

Status: Released

Language: PT

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Production Information

Production Companies
DOX:LAB A Mutual Respect Productions
Production Countries
Denmark Portugal Sri Lanka
Spoken Languages
French Portuguese Spanish

Quick Facts

Release Date June 11, 2014
Status Released
Language PT
IMDb ID tt3493308
Website Visit Site

Cast

Natxo Checa
Natxo Checa

Luís Vaz de Camões

Jani Zhao
Jani Zhao

Dinamene

Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes

Portuguese Authority

David Lasantha
David Lasantha

Opium Dealer

Jõao Pedro Vale
Jõao Pedro Vale

King Philipp II

Alexandre Melo
Alexandre Melo

Petrarch

Gonçalo Pena
Gonçalo Pena

Homer

Édith Scob
Édith Scob

L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

Andreia Cabral
Andreia Cabral

Joana Pais de Brito
Joana Pais de Brito

Nymph III

Key Crew

Gabriel Abrantes
Director
Natxo Checa
Producer
Gabriel Abrantes
Producer
Gabriel Abrantes
Executive Producer
Natxo Checa
Executive Producer
David Lasantha
Screenplay
Gabriel Abrantes
Writer
Marta Furtado
Producer