Codelli (2017)

Codelli (2017)

2017-11-20 Slovenia 85 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Primož Bezjak is Baron Codelli
Baron Codelli
Katarina Stegnar is Valentina Mladota
Valentina Mladota
Doroteja Nadrah is Servant Marija
Servant Marija
Grega Zorc is Engineer Freischmidt
Engineer Freischmidt
Marinka Štern is Codelli's Mother
Codelli's Mother
Branko Jordan is James Hodgson
James Hodgson
Uroš Kaurin is Hans Schumburgk
Hans Schumburgk
Janja Majzelj is 4th Wife
Mojca Fatur is Meg Gherts
Meg Gherts