Codelli

Feature documentary film

2018

IMDb

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