{{Short description|1964 French feature film in Esperanto}} {{no footnotes|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox film | name = Angoroj | image = Angoroj_Title_Screenshot.jpg | caption = Title Screen | director = Jacques-Louis Mahé | producer = Jacques-Louis Mahé | writer = Atelier Mahé | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | starring = Michel Duc-Goninaz<br>Raymond Schwartz<br>Gaston Waringhien | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1964|||France}} | runtime = | country = France | language =Esperanto | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Angoroj''''' (''Agonies'') is a 1964 film. It is the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto. It was directed and produced by Jacques-Louis Mahé,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angoroj (1964) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/angoroj-1964 |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en}}</ref> a friend of Raymond Schwartz who, under the pseudonym 'Lorjak', had previously produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II titled ''Antaŭen!'' (''Onwards!'').
== Overview == 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 Michel Duc-Goninaz.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Y |first=Lindsay |date=2023-03-24 |title=Angoroj (1964) - La Unua Longdaŭra Esperanto-Filmo |url=https://videoludoj.com/angoroj-1964-la-unua-longdaura-esperanto-filmo/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=Videoludoj |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Production == The film was produced from 1963 to 1964, but the market did not react favourably. Mahé, who lost a large sum of money, accused Universala Esperanto-Asocio of a boycott. At the highest point of his depression, he destroyed almost all copies: only two remain (acquired eventually by the Château de Grésillon and the British Esperanto Association, both already used) as well as the original, which LF-koop (Kooperativo de Literatura Foiro) rescued in 1991, distributing a 61-minute videotape.
==See also== *''Incubus'' *List of Esperanto-language films
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0229990|title=Angoroj}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBD3zyh55Pg Angoroj (Anxieties)] with English subtitles
Category:French crime drama films Category:Esperanto-language films Category:1960s rediscovered films Category:Rediscovered French films Category:Esperanto in France