Codelli

Codelli (2017)

N/A 85 min Movie
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.

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Cast

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

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