Agonies
- Drama
- Crime
Overview
Angoroj (1964; Esperanto for "Agonies") was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto. (Jacques-Louis Mahé, a friend of Raymond Schwartz and under the pseudonym of 'Lorjak', had however already produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II, titled Antaŭen! (Onwards!). At the start of the 1960s Mahé, a professional photographic and cinematic expert, invested in the production of the first fictional film in Esperanto. Using a scenario by Mahé himself, the actors of the Internacia Arta Teatro (International Arts Theatre) presented a crime story, set in the Parisian periphery of petty thieves and cheats. Other notable people who played parts in the film included Schwartz (the commissioner), Gaston Waringhien (the voice-over) and many from the environs of the contemporary Paris, including a very young Michel Duc-Goninaz.
Keywords
- paris
- france
- police
- criminals
- police agent
- paris, france
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1964
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Esperanto
- Director
- Jacques-Louis Mahé,Atelier Mahé
- Producer
- Jacques-Louis Mahé
- Music
- René Texier
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0229990