Angoroj

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Movie
Original title Angoroj
Country of production France
original language Esperanto
Publishing year 1964
length 61 minutes
Rod
Director Jacques-Louis Mahé
script Jacques-Louis Mahé
production Jacques-Louis Mahé
occupation
Shooting of Angoroj

Angoroj ( torment ) is the first feature film to be shot entirely in Esperanto .

history

As early as 1936 before Angoroj, Jacques-Louis Mahé produced an Esperanto advertising silent film entitled Antaŭen! ( Forward! ). Mahé used the pseudonym Lorjak for this purpose .

At the beginning of the 1960s, the photographer and cinema expert Jacques-Louis Mahé produced the first feature film in Esperanto. He wrote the script for it himself. He engaged the actors of the Internacia Arta Teatro ("International Art Theater") Jana Ravšelj, Marc Darnault and Srdjan Flego as actors. He shot a crime story with them that takes place in the Parisian pickpockets and fraudsters.

Other actors were Raymond Schwartz as inspector, Gaston Waringhien as narrator and Michel Duc-Goninaz as assistant to the inspector.

The film was shown only a little, including at the Hungarian Film Show in Budapest in 1966. Mahé, who lost a lot of money on this flop, accused the World Esperanto Federation of boycotts. He then destroyed almost all copies, only two survived, one of them at the Kulturdomo de Franclandaj Esperantistoj in the Château de Grésillon, the other at the British Esperanto Association . The original is owned by the Kooperativo de Literatura Foiro , which published a video tape in 1991 with a 61-minute version of the film.

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