Codelli
Feature documentary film
Codelli is a feature-length docudrama (85‘) 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 green screen technology to bring to life 15 live-action scenes based on 600 Codelli’s museum photographs.
Production
Astral
Cast
Primož Bezjak – Anton Codelli
Film director
Miha Čelar
Cinematographer
Rožle Bregar
Music score
Silence
Producer
Miha Čelar
Camera operator
Uroš Škorič
Lighting technician
Gašper Kocjančič
Sound recordists
Aljaž Lukan
Vincent Laurence
Editor
Aleksandar Stanojevič
Sound designers
Gašper Loborec
Julij Zornik
Animation designer
Iztok Šuc
Colorist
Urban Potočnik
Best History Documentary
Master Doc
United States of America, 2019
Best History / Biography Documentary
Alive Doc
United States of America, 2018
Best cinematography
IRIS – Slovenian cinematography award
Slovenia, 2016