Taprobana (2014)
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.
Release Date : June 11, 2014
Runtime : 24m
Genre : Comedy
Companies : DOX:LAB, A Mutual Respect Productions
Countries : Denmark, Portugal, Sri Lanka
Keywords : historical figure, historical fiction, exotic locale, curta, portuguese discoveries