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{{short description|1964 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Angoroj
| image          = Angoroj_Title_Screenshot.jpg
| caption        = Title Screen
| director       = Jacques-Louis Mahé
| producer       = Jacques-Louis Mahé
| writer         = Atelier Mahé
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| starring       = [[Michel Duc-Goninaz]]<br>[[Raymond Schwartz]]<br>[[Gaston Waringhien]]
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| released       = {{Film date|1964|||France}}
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| country        = France
| language       =[[Esperanto]]
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'''''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 [[photography|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 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]].<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 (1966 film)|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]]

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