Codelli
Documentary
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.
Director: Miha Čelar
Top Cast
Primož Bezjak
Baron Codelli
Katarina Stegnar
Valentina Mladota
Doroteja Nadrah
Servant Marija
Maša Kagao Knez
Akkbe
Kany Michel Obenga
Amus
Gregor Zorc
Engineer Freischmidt
Marinka Štern
Codelli's Mother
Branko Jordan
James Hodgson
Uroš Kaurin
Hans Schumburgk
Janja Majzelj
4th Wife
Mojca Fatur
Meg Gherts
Kristoffer Born
Himself
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