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.
Direction
Cast
Jani Zhao
Dinamene
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Natxo Checa
Luís Vaz de Camões
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U.G. Punchi Banda
Male Farmer
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B. Wimalawate
Women Farmer
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David Lasantha
Opium Dealer
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Dhamika Amarashinghe
Portuguese Authority
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João Pedro Vale
King Philipp II
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Alexandre Melo
Petrarch
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Gonçalo Pena
Homer
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Mónica Talina
Nymph I
Gabriel Abrantes
Cinematographer
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Natxo Checa
Cinematographer
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Lakruwan Withanage
Cinematographer