Incubus

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OK, so, films in Esperanto starring William Shatner… Anybody? The answer is Incubus, a true oddity from 1966 made just before Shatner started work on Star Trek. It’s one of only two films made in the world’s most widely spoken “constructed auxiliary language” (made up, in other words) in the 1960s. The other being 1964’s Angoroj. Wikipedia says there are two more from the noughties – 2006’s Gerda malaperis! and 2007’s La Patro, which is only 40 minutes long and about which not much is known. Incubus is undoubtedly the most famous of all of them, partly because of Shatner, partly because it’s directed by Lesley Stevens, the producer of The Outer Limits, who … Read more