Codelli

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Primož Bezjak Baron Codelli

Katarina Stegnar Valentina Mladota

Doroteja Nadrah Servant Marija

Maša Kagao Knez Akkbe

Kany Michel Obenga Amus