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.
Cast
Natxo Checa
as Luís Vaz de Camões
Jani Zhao
as Dinamene
Gabriel Abrantes
as Portuguese Authority
David Lasantha
as Opium Dealer
Jõao Pedro Vale
as King Philipp II
Alexandre Melo
as Petrarch
Gonçalo Pena
as Homer
Édith Scob
as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
Andreia Cabral
as
Joana Pais de Brito
as Nymph III
