Orango (2014)
"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.
- Date of release
- 2014-08-20
- Runtime
- 34m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- Elina Heiskanen
Casting
- Esa-Pekka Salonen — Self - Conductor
- Natalia Pavlova — Suzanna
- Dmitro Koljeuško — Ivanov
- Natalia Jakimova — Renée
- Aleksander Šagun — Armand Fleury
- Aleksander Trofimov — Paul Mâche
- Ivan Novoselov — Orango
- Vladimir Babokin — Foreigner 1
- Oleg Losev — Foreigner 2
- Leo Elhardt — Voice from the crowd
- Denis Beganski — The Entertainer
- Juri Jevtšuk
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