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Codelli (2017)

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 billed cast

  • Photo of Primož BezjakPrimož BezjakBaron Codelli
  • Photo of Katarina StegnarKatarina StegnarValentina Mladota
  • Photo of Doroteja NadrahDoroteja NadrahServant Marija
  • Photo of Maša Kagao KnezMaša Kagao KnezAkkbe
  • Photo of Kany Michel ObengaKany Michel ObengaAmus
  • Photo of Gregor ZorcGregor ZorcEngineer Freischmidt
  • Photo of Marinka ŠternMarinka ŠternCodelli's Mother
  • Photo of Branko JordanBranko JordanJames Hodgson
  • Photo of Uroš KaurinUroš KaurinHans Schumburgk
  • Photo of Janja MajzeljJanja Majzelj4th Wife

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