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Codelli

Codelli

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 20, 2017

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Codelli

Production Companies

Produkcijska skupina Mangart, Astral d.o.o., Studio Kerozin

Director

Miha Čelar

Description

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.