Taprobana 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.
Taprobana Career and Cast Highlights
Key credits listed on this page include
Gabriel Abrantes, Vimukthi Jayasundara, David Lasantha, Natxo Checa, Jani Zhao, Jõao Pedro Vale, Alexandre Melo, and Gonçalo Pena.
