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Taprobana

Taprobana

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 11, 2014

Runtime

0h 24m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

61%

Original Title

Taprobana

Production Companies

DOX:LAB, A Mutual Respect Productions

Director

Gabriel Abrantes

Description

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.