Codelli · 2017

Codelli

Miha Čelar · 85 min · Slovenia

Codelli is a feature-length docudrama about a little-known film project by Slovenian inventor Baron Anton Codelli. Together with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk he filmed in Togo in 1914 the first live-action film in Africa, which possibly inspired James Rice Burroughs for his novel on Tarzan. In the company of three Codelli’s descendants and actor Primož Bezjak, we traced the fate of Codelli’s film, brought the remains from Togo and Berlin to Ljubljana and used the Green Screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.

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Production companies

Mangart, Astral d.o.o., Studio Kerozin

Cast

• Primož Bezjak

  Baron Codelli

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  Katarina Stegnar

  Valentina Mladota

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  Doroteja Nadrah

  Servant Marija

• Maša Kagao Knez

  Akkbe

• Kany Michel Obenga

  Amus

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  Gregor Zorc

  Engineer Freischmidt

• Marinka Štern

  Codelli's Mother

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  Branko Jordan

  James Hodgson