Infobox film name Angoroj image caption director Jacques Louis Mah producer Jacques Louis Mah writer Atelier Mah 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 Film date Year Month Day Location runtime country Film France language Esperanto budget gross Angoroj 1964 Esperanto for Agonies was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto . It was directed and produced by Jacques Louis Mah , a friend of Raymond Schwartz who, under the pseudonym Lorjak , had previously produced a silent Esperanto publicity film before World War II titled Anta en Onwards . At the start of the 1960s Mah , a professional photography photographic and cinematic expert, invested in the production of the first fictional film in Esperanto. Using a scenario by Mah himself, the actors of the Internacia Arta Teatro International Arts Theatre presented a crime fiction crime story , set in the Paris ian periphery of petty thieves and cheats. Other notable people who played parts in the film included Raymond Schwartz Schwartz the commissioner , Gaston Waringhien the voice over and many from the environs of the contemporary Paris, including Michel Duc Goninaz . The film was produced from 1963 to 1964, but the market did not react favourably. Mah , 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 Ch teau de Gr sillon 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 . External links imdb title id 0229990 title Angoroj Category Esperanto language films Category 1964 films Esperanto stub ca Angoroj de Angoroj es Angoroj eo Angoroj ... more details
about the film genre information on the production company Esperanto Films refimprove date May 2010 Esperanto sidebar expanded Culture Feature films There are four feature film s known to have been shot exclusively in the constructed language Esperanto . Both Angoroj Agonies and Incubus 1965 film Incubus were shot in the 1960s in film 1960s , and both were long thought lost until recent restorations. Two more Esperanto films have been produced recently. Angoroj was produced in France in 1964 in film 1964 and directed by Atelier Mah . It runs approximately one hour and its story involves murder. After a restoration and home video release in the PAL format in Switzerland , the film appears to be once again unavailable. Very little detailed information about Angoroj is available, except that the cast included some proficient Esperantists, including Raymond Schwartz, who was also associated with the Esperanto Cabaret in Paris . The second feature was the 1965 in film 1965 United States American production Incubus 1966 film Incubus , a low budget black and white horror film directed by the creator of the television series The Outer Limits 1963 TV series The Outer Limits and starring William Shatner . Though the film is admired for its stark artistry, Esperantists generally cringe at the actors poor pronunciation. Gerda malaperis Gerda Disappeared and La patro The Father are two new films that have been produced by the Brazilian Esperanto film producer Imagu filmoj . Documentaries Earlier examples of Esperanto in film consist mainly of old newsreel and documentary film documentary footage, some dating back as early as 1911, when the seventh international Esperanto conference was held in Antwerp city Antwerp, Belgium . The funeral of Esperanto creator L. L. Zamenhof in 1917 was filmed. According to some sources Citation needed date December 2009 , French cinema pioneer Leon Ernest Gaumont wanted to make a film about Esperanto to showcase a sync sound process he had develop ... more details
Michel Duc Goninaz b. 6 September 1933 in Paris is known worldwide for his 2002 revision of Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto Complete illustrated Esperanto dictionary . ref name donh Don Harlow, http esperanto usa.org en node 785 Review Nova Plena Ilustrita Vortaro New Complete Illustrated Dictionary Esperanto USA blog, 28 March 2007. Retrieved 2009 09 28. ref A member of the TEJO World Esperanto Youth Organization TEJO during the 1950s , he served as co editor of La Folieto, distributed mainly among young Esperantist s of le de France region le de France . In 1956 he married Arlette Lecourtois . ref http www.gazetotekolanti.com jv jv204.pdf Esperantista Kroniko , La Juna Vivo April May June 1956 , p. 37. Retrieved 2009 09 28. ref He played a role in the 1964 Esperanto language feature film Angoroj . Notably, he compiled Vocabulaire Esp ranto La tema esperanta franca vortareto , a thematic French Esperanto dictionary published by Ophrys in 1971 2nd edition, 1990 , and he adapted Alexander Pushkin s play theatre play The Stone Guest into Esperanto as La tona Gasto . He also translated The Stranger novel The Stranger by Albert Camus and Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler into Esperanto. For many years he was a lecturer in Russian and Esperanto at the University of Provence Aix en Provence Aix Marseille . Duc Goninaz is now a lecturer at the Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino International Academy of Sciences in San Marino and is a regular contributing editor to the Esperanto language monthly magazine Monato . In 2002, he and Claude Roux updated and revised Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto , a monolingual reference dictionary of Esperanto by Gaston Waringhien that had originally been published in 1976. In 2002 the journal La Ondo de Esperanto named Duc Goninaz as Esperantist of the Year in recognition of his work as chief editor for the dictionary revision. Another revis ... more details
Esperanto sidebar expanded Culture The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture , including a large body of original as well as translated Esperanto literature literature . There are over 25,000 Esperanto books originals and translations as well as over a hundred regularly distributed List of Esperanto magazines Esperanto magazines . Many Esperanto speakers use the language for free travel throughout the world using the Pasporta Servo . Others like the idea of having pen pal s in many countries around the world using services like the Esperanto Pen Pal Service. Every year, Esperanto speakers meet for the World Congress of Esperanto Universala Kongreso de Esperanto . These attract around 1500 3000 speakers, and the best attended conferences are regularly those held in Central Europe Central or Eastern Europe , close to the birthplace of Esperanto see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto . Literature, music and film Every year, hundreds of new titles are published in Esperanto along with Esperanto music music . Also, many Esperanto newspapers and magazines exist. Monato is a general news magazine like a genuinely international Time magazine Time or Newsweek , but written by local correspondents. A magazine for the blind, A roro , has been published since 1920. Esperanto can be heard in television and radio broadcasts and on the internet. There are currently radio broadcasts from China Radio International , Melbourne Ethnic Community Radio , Radio Habana Cuba , RAI Radio Audizioni Italiane Rai , Radio Polonia , Radio F.R.E.I. and Radio Vatican . Internacia Televido , an internet television channel, began broadcasting in November 2005. Historically most of the Esperanto music music published in Esperanto has been in various folk traditions in recent decades more rock and other modern genres has appeared. In 1964, Jacques Louis Mah produced the first full length feature film in Esperanto, entitled Angoroj . This was followed in 1965 by th ... more details
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