Taprobana

Name: Taprobana
Director: Gabriel Abrantes
Released: 2014-06-11
Duration: 24 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Natxo Checa, Jani Zhao, Gabriel Abrantes, David Lasantha, Jõao Pedro Vale

Jun 11, 2014 · 24m · Comedy

⭐ 5.7· 9 votes

Director Gabriel Abrantes

Writer David Lasantha

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.