Before watching the movie:

I don’t think anyone would have expected Esperanto to turn up in a selection of non-English films, but this was part of the inspiration for the theme. Well, to be more specific, I wanted to try an Esperanto film but I didn’t want it to be Incubus because the bad pronunciation is infamous. However, there are only four films known to be produced in Esperanto and this is the only one I was actually able to get my hands on. I guess this has lived pretty well off of getting William Shatner immediately before his big break. Though apparently it was thought lost until the 90s, and a good quality version was only just announced last year.

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