Codelli

Overview

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.

Directed by Miha Čelar

Top cast

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Primož Bezjak

Baron Codelli

Katarina Stegnar

Valentina Mladota

Doroteja Nadrah

Servant Marija

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Maša Kagao Knez

Akkbe

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Kany Michel Obenga

Amus

Gregor Zorc

Engineer Freischmidt

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Marinka Štern

Codelli's Mother

Branko Jordan

James Hodgson

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Uroš Kaurin

Hans Schumburgk

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Janja Majzelj

4th Wife

Mojca Fatur

Meg Gherts

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Kristoffer Born

Himself

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