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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Primož Bezjak
Baron Codelli
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Katarina Stegnar
Valentina Mladota
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Miha Celar
Primoz Bezjak
Baron Codelli
Doroteja Nadrah
Servant Marija
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Class Enemy
Maša Kagao Knez
Akkbe
Kany Michel Obenga
Amus
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Masa Kagao Knez
Akkbe
Gregor Zorc
Engineer Freischmidt
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The Vault
Boles
Marinka Štern
Codelli's Mother
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Grega Zorc
Engineer Freiscmidt
Branko Jordan
James Hodgson
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Miha Čelar Director
First release September 9, 2017 · Produced in Slovenia · Languages English, German, Slovenian
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Mangart
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Astral d.o.o.
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Studio Kerozin
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RTV Slovenija
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Slovenia
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Slovenian
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English · German · Slovenian
Release dates
Slovenia · September 9, 2017
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Croatia
July 20, 2018 · Pula Film Festival
Serbia
November 20, 2017 · Theatrical
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