Taprobana
- Director: Gabriel Abrantes
- Writer: Gabriel Abrantes; Vimukthi Jayasundara
- Producer: Gabriel Abrantes
CGiii Comment
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.
Trailer...
Taprobana (Excerpt) - 2014 - by Gabriel Abrantes from Gabriel Abrantes on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Gabriel Abrantes as Autorite portugaise;
Natxo Checa as Luis Vaz de Camoes;
David Lasantha as Opium Dealer;
Betty Meixue as Betty;
Alexandre Melo as Petrarch;
Goncalo Pena as Homer;
Andre Principe as Serviteur du roi;
Edith Scob as L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan;
Wilson Teixeira as Stephan Rizon;
Joao Pedro Vale as King Philipp II;
Jani Zhao as Dinamene