Baron Codelli
Primož Bezjak
Baron Codelli
Overview
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
Valentina Mladota
Katarina Stegnar
Valentina Mladota
Servant Marija
Doroteja Nadrah
Servant Marija
Akkbe
Maša Kagao Knez
Akkbe
Amus
Kany Michel Obenga
Amus
Engineer Freischmidt
Grega Zorc
Engineer Freischmidt
Codelli's Mother
Marinka Štern
Codelli's Mother
James Hodgson
Branko Jordan
James Hodgson
Hans Schumburgk
Uroš Kaurin
Hans Schumburgk
4th Wife
Janja Majzelj
4th Wife
Meg Gherts
Mojca Fatur
Meg Gherts
Himself
Kristoffer Born
Himself
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