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Orango

2014 • 0h34m Music, Drama

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"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.

Details

Director

Elina Heiskanen

Screenplay

Alexander Starchakov

Cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Natalia Pavlova

Dmitro Koljeuško

Release date

8/20/2014

Status

Released

Origin country

RU