The read
It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Key crew
- Miha ČelarWriter
- Miha ČelarDirector
Cast
- Primož BezjakBaron Codelli
- Katarina StegnarValentina Mladota
- Doroteja NadrahServant Marija
- Maša Kagao KnezAkkbe
- Kany Michel ObengaAmus
- Gregor ZorcEngineer Freischmidt
- Marinka ŠternCodelli's Mother
- Branko JordanJames Hodgson
- Uroš KaurinHans Schumburgk
- Janja Majzelj4th Wife
- Mojca FaturMeg Gherts
- Kristoffer BornHimself
Stills
Themes
slovenia