Orango (2014)
0h 34m | PG-13
"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.
Director: Elina Heiskanen
Studio: YLE
Genre: Music, Drama
Video: 720p
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