Luís de Camões is considered Portugal’s national poet, an equivalent to England’s Shakespeare or Spain’s Cervantes. João Lopes’s film takes us on an otherworldly journey to Camões’s five-hundred-year-old epic Os Lusíada, which he composed in Macau whilst he was stationed in the colony.
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Cacheu
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Zwazo
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Na escama do dragão
Liberal doses of pirates and swimming pools on a journalist and cameraman’s trip to Macau, which till 1999 was Europe’s last remaining colony in China
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
