Taprobana (2014)
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.
Director:
Gabriel Abrantes
Writers:
David Lasantha, Vimukthi Jayasundara.
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Natxo Checa as Luís Vaz de Camões |
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Jani Zhao as Dinamene |
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Gabriel Abrantes as Portuguese Authority |
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David Lasantha as Opium Dealer |
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Jõao Pedro Vale as King Philipp II |
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Alexandre Melo as Petrarch |
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Gonçalo Pena as Homer |
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Édith Scob as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan |
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Andreia Cabral as |
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Joana Pais de Brito as Nymph III |
| Directing | Gabriel Abrantes | Director |
| Production | Gabriel Abrantes | Producer |
| Production | Gabriel Abrantes | Executive Producer |
| Production | Natxo Checa | Producer |
| Production | Natxo Checa | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Gabriel Abrantes | Editor |
| Writing | David Lasantha | Screenplay |
| Camera | Gabriel Abrantes | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Lakruan Withanage | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Natxo Checa | Director of Photography |
| Production | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Producer |
| Production | Marta Furtado | Producer |
| Sound | Hugo Leitão | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Hugo Leitão | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Gabriel Abrantes | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Daniel Gries | Foley Artist |
| Writing | Gabriel Abrantes | Writer |
| Writing | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Screenplay |
| Production | Joana Botelho | Line Producer |
| Production | Jani Zhao | Production Assistant |
