Agonies

Angoroj 1964 Esperanto for Agonies was the first feature film to be produced entirely in Esperanto JacquesLouis 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 voiceover and many from the environs of the contemporary Paris including a very young Michel DucGoninaz