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Taprobana

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  • Comedy

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.

Keywords

  • historical fiction
  • historical figure
  • exotic locale
  • curta
  • portuguese discoveries
  • short

Details

Status
Released
Release date
June 11, 2014
Original language
English
Spoken languages
Spanish, French, Portuguese
Countries
Denmark, Portugal, Sri Lanka
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
Taprobana (2014) | Kinocult