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Codelli

2017 · 85 min

A quiet, curious docudrama that reconstructs a forgotten colonial-era film project, blending archival photographs, travel and reenactment into a reflective historical essay.

Directed by
Miha Čelar
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Primož Bezjak, Katarina Stegnar, Doroteja Nadrah
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.

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Directed by
Miha Čelar
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Primož Bezjak, Katarina Stegnar, Doroteja Nadrah
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    • memory
    • exploration
    • art
    • colonialism
    • identity
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    • countryside
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
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    • true story
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    • Language mild
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    Humour2
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Miha Čelar
    Written by
    Miha Čelar
    Starring
    Primož Bezjak, Katarina Stegnar, Doroteja Nadrah, Maša Kagao Knez, Kany Michel Obenga, Gregor Zorc, Marinka Štern, Branko Jordan
    Runtime
    85 min
    Country
    Slovenia
    Languages
    English, German, Slovenian

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