Taprobana

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.

Director

Gabriel Abrantes

Screenplay

David Lasantha

Screenplay

Gabriel Abrantes

Screenplay

Vimukthi Jayasundara

Status

Released

Release date

11/06/2014

Original language

Portuguese