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Agonies (1964)

ALL 01/01/1964 (en) Crime, Drama 61 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1964
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Angoroj
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  2. Story



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  1. Michel Duc-Goninaz

    L'aide-commissaire

  2. Raymond Schwartz

    Le commissaire

  3. Gaston Waringhien

    Narrateur

  4. Jana Ravšelj

    Irina

  5. Srdjan Flego

    Karleto

  6. Marc Darnault

    Henriko

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Casts : 6 , Crews : 10

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Agonies (1964) 61 Min

ALL 01/01/1964 (en)
Crime, Drama
  • Release 01/01/1964
  • Production
  • Original title Angoroj
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Jacques-Louis Mahé, Atelier Mahé

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jacques-Louis Mahé

    Editor

  4. Jacques-Louis Mahé

    Producer



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