TMDb Rating
5.7/10
9 verified votes
Taprobana (2014)
Comedy
24 min
Plot Summary
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.
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Keywords to include
ComedyGabriel AbrantesNatxo ChecaJani Zhao2014
Director
Gabriel Abrantes
Top Cast
Natxo ChecaJani ZhaoGabriel AbrantesDavid LasanthaJõao Pedro Vale
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