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.

Cast

Primož Bezjak

Baron Codelli

Katarina Stegnar

Valentina Mladota

Doroteja Nadrah

Servant Marija

Maša Kagao Knez

Akkbe

Kany Michel Obenga

Amus

Gregor Zorc

Engineer Freischmidt

Marinka Štern

Codelli's Mother

Branko Jordan

James Hodgson

Uroš Kaurin

Hans Schumburgk

Janja Majzelj

4th Wife

Mojca Fatur

Meg Gherts

Kristoffer Born

Himself