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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.

Top Cast

  • Natxo Checa

    Natxo Checa

    Luís Vaz de Camões

  • Jani Zhao

    Jani Zhao

    Dinamene

  • Gabriel Abrantes

    Gabriel Abrantes

    Portuguese Authority

  • David Lasantha

    David Lasantha

    Opium Dealer

  • Jõao Pedro Vale

    Jõao Pedro Vale

    King Philipp II

  • Alexandre Melo

    Alexandre Melo

    Petrarch

  • Gonçalo Pena

    Gonçalo Pena

    Homer

  • Édith Scob

    Édith Scob

    L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan

  • Andreia Cabral

    Andreia Cabral

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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