An invented language with 130 years of hope — and people still speaking it.
This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history and structure of the Esperanto language, introducing its present-day speakers. The words of these users of the language are reflective of a variety of activities and viewpoints, and in the film they are interwoven so as to reveal bit by bit how the utopia of its initiator, Ludwig ZAMENHOF, is concretised every day.
Direction
Patient observation lets speakers reveal themselves.
Production
Genuine global scope on presumably tiny budget.
Director
Dominique Gautier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Dominique Gautier spent years tracking speakers across continents with no studio backing, essentially making this a one-person linguistic expedition.
Esperanto was briefly an official language of the short-lived Republic of Neutral Moresnet (1908-1920) — the only time it had state recognition.
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