Codelli (2017)
1h 25mDocumentary
Directed by Miha Čelar
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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Top cast
- Primož BezjakBaron Codelli
Katarina StegnarValentina Mladota- Doroteja NadrahServant Marija
- Maša Kagao KnezAkkbe
- Kany Michel ObengaAmus
Gregor ZorcEngineer Freischmidt- Marinka ŠternCodelli's Mother
Branko JordanJames Hodgson
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