Angoroj

• Raymond Schwartz: Commissioner
• Gaston Waringhien: spokesman
• Michel Duc - Goninaz

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

History

Jacques -Louis Mahé produced in 1936 before Angoroj an Esperanto advertising silent film entitled " to thaw " ( "Forward " ). To this end, the pseudonym Mahé Lorjak served.

At the beginning of the 1960s the photographer and cinema expert Jacques -Louis Mahé the first feature film produced in Esperanto. He wrote for the script itself. As a performer, he engaged the actors of Internacia Arta Teatro ( "International Art Theater" ) Jana Ravšelj, Marc Darnault and Srdjan Flego. He turned to them with a detective story set in the Parisian pickpockets and scammers milieu.

Other actors were Raymond Schwartz, Gaston Waringhien and a very young Michel Duc - Goninaz.

The film was very little shown. Mahé, who lost a lot of money through this flop, accused the Esperanto Association of the boycott. He destroyed then almost all copies, only two survived, one of them in the Kulturdomo de Franclandaj esperantistoj at the Château de Grésillon, the other at the British Esperanto Association. The original has the Kooperativo de Literatura Foiro, she has published in 1991 a video tape with a 61 minutes long version of the film.