Agonies

Agonies
Title:
Agonies
Released:
Jan 01, 1964
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Casts:
Michel Duc-Goninaz, Raymond Schwartz, Gaston Waringhien, Jana Ravšelj, Srdjan Flego, Marc Darnault

Synopsis Agonies

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.

  • Michel Duc-Goninaz
  • Raymond Schwartz
  • Gaston Waringhien
  • Jana Ravšelj
  • Srdjan Flego
  • Marc Darnault

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