Codelli

Codelli

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 20, 2017

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.

Codelli

85 mins | Documentary | Nov. 20, 2017

Codelli
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.
Producers Studio Kerozin, Produkcijska skupina Mangart, Astral d.o.o.
Original title Codelli
Directors Miha Čelar
Writers Miha Čelar

Cast

Primož Bezjak

as Baron Codelli

Katarina Stegnar

as Valentina Mladota

Doroteja Nadrah

as Servant Marija

Maša Kagao Knez

as Akkbe

Grega Zorc

as Engineer Freischmidt

Marinka Štern

as Codelli's Mother

Branko Jordan

as James Hodgson

Uroš Kaurin

as Hans Schumburgk

Janja Majzelj

as 4th Wife

Mojca Fatur

as Meg Gherts

Kristoffer Born

as Himself