Orango (2014)
Synopsis
"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm. No pregnancy occurred.. In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.
Release Date: 2014-08-20
Runtime: 34 minutes
Director: Elina Heiskanen
Top Cast
- Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor
- Natalia Pavlova as Suzanna
- Dmitro Koljeuško as Ivanov
- Natalia Jakimova as Renée
- Aleksander Šagun as Armand Fleury
- Aleksander Trofimov as Paul Mâche
- Ivan Novoselov as Orango
- Vladimir Babokin as Foreigner 1
- Oleg Losev as Foreigner 2
- Leo Elhardt as Voice from the crowd
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