Codelli
2017Codelli 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.
Acted in
Primož Bezjak
as Baron Codelli
Katarina Stegnar
as Valentina Mladota
Doroteja Nadrah
as Servant Marija
Maša Kagao Knez
as Akkbe
Kany Michel Obenga
as Amus
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