Film
Taprobana
Denmark · Portugal · Sri Lanka- Director
- Gabriel Abrantes
- Year
- 2014
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Gabriel Abrantes
Written by
David Lasantha, Gabriel Abrantes, Vimukthi Jayasundara
Produced by
Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Marta Furtado
