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Taprobana
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Title: Taprobana

Release Date: 11 Jun 2014

Runtime: 24m

Genre: Comedy

Director: DOX:LAB, A Mutual Respect Productions

Production Companies: DOX:LAB, A Mutual Respect Productions

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.1 (8 votes)

Cast

  • Luís Vaz de Camões: Natxo Checa
  • Dinamene: Jani Zhao
  • Portuguese Authority: Gabriel Abrantes
  • Opium Dealer: David Lasantha
  • King Philipp II: Jõao Pedro Vale
  • Petrarch: Alexandre Melo
  • Homer: Gonçalo Pena
  • L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan: Édith Scob
  • : Andreia Cabral
  • Nymph III: Joana Pais de Brito
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